Nicholas Senn

Nicholas Senn (October 31, 1844 – January 2, 1908) was a Swiss-born American surgeon, instructor, and founder of the Association of Military Surgeons of the United States. He served as the president of the American Medical Association in 1897–98 and as chief surgeon of the Sixth Army Corps in 1898, seeing service in Cuba during the Spanish–American War. plastic surgery, head and neck oncology, the intestinal tract, and the treatment of leukaemia with x-rays.

Career Senn spent the first few years after graduating as practitioner and resident physician at the Cook County Hospital in Chicago, later becoming attending physician in a Milwaukee hospital.

In 1878, he joined the faculty of Rush Medical College in Chicago as Professor of Surgery.

Between 1887 and 1888, he served as a vice president of the American Surgical Association.

In 1890, he became professor of practical and clinical surgery and surgical pathology at Rush Medical College, progressing to head of the department of surgery in 1891.

Senn also authored a book, Around the World via India - a medical tour, published by American Medical Association Press, Chicago, in 1905.