Charles theodore dotter biography for kids
Charles Theodore Dotter (14 June 1920 – 15 February 1985) was a pioneering American radiologist who is credited with developing interventional radiology.
Dotter was born in Boston on 14 June 1920..
The Father of Interventional Radiology: Dr. Charles T. Dotter
Early life and career
Dotter was born in Boston in 1920 and attended school in Freeport, New York.
Having received his B.A. degree from Duke University (majoring in Psychology), he completed his medical degree at Cornell University.
Following this he completed his internship at the United States Naval Hospital and his Radiology residency at New York Hospital.
At just 30 years of age, he was offered a full-time faculty position at the Cornell Medical School; and by age 32, Dotter became the Oregon Health Sciences University’s Chairman of the School of Medicine Department of Diagnostic Radiology.
The Technologist
"If a plumber can do it to pipes, we can do it to blood vessels" - (Charles Dotter, see Fig.
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He first described percutaneous transluminal angioplasty (PTA) in 1964, along with his trainee Melvin Judkins - they successfully use