In the wake of the passing of Nobel Prize winning surgeon Dr. Joseph Murray, who carried out the first successful kidney transplant in 1954, Dr. Peter C. Neligan, an Elsevier author of the definitive textbook of the discipline, Plastic Surgery, 3rd Edition comments on Dr. Murray’s legacy of innovation. Dr. Murray died on Monday in Boston at the age of 93.

“The history of Plastic Surgery is one of innovation in medicine, and Dr. Murray’s contributions paved the way for developments that today continue in areas such as hand and face transplantation,” says Dr. Neligan, author of five books, more than 50 book chapters and 170 peer-reviewed papers.

Learn more about Dr. Neligan and his textbook by visiting Dr. Neligan’s Elsevier Authors page.

Read the full article online from the Boston Globe.