December 11, 2014

Trivia of the week -- 'Life' and lives

Dr. Edward Hon, pioneer of the fetal monitor

In our continuing series on medical pioneers out of Loma Linda University Health, we learned last week about Edward H.G. Hon, MD, an alumnus of LLU School of Medicine class of 1950.

At Yale University, Hon pioneered a device that has saved countless babies — the fetal monitor. For this accomplishment, he was profiled in Life magazine in 1969. Correctly naming the publication that featured him were random winners Elisabeth Clarke, Shirley A. Lee and Lora Benzatyan. Please email pr@llu.edu to claim your prize, which must be picked up within 60 days.

For this week’s question, we turn to Melvin P. Judkins, class of 1947, who greatly simplified an existing coronary procedure. His improved version came to be called the Judkins technique of said procedure. What was this procedure?

Email the correct answer to pr@llu.edu by midnight Tuesday, Dec. 16, for the chance to be a random winner. One answer per person.

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