Elliot Carr Cutler CB OBE (July 30, 1888 – August 16, 1947) was an American surgeon, military physician, and medical educator.

[1] After completing his graduation, he spent five months in Europe, mostly in London and at the University of Heidelberg in Germany, where he studied pathology with Ludolf von Krehl.

This prompted Cutler to return to France as a captain in the Army Medical Corps assigned to the Harvard Unit, Base Hospital Number 5.

In 1932 he succeeded Harvey Cushing as Moseley Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and surgeon-in-chief at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.

[1] At the outbreak of World War II, the governor of Massachusetts appointed Cutler as medical director of the state committee on public safety.

He was again called into active service in the Army Medical Corps in 1942, and was named chief consultant in surgery in the European Theater of Operations (ETO).

Together with William Shainline Middleton, who was the chief consultant in medicine, Cutler structured the system of care for injured and sick U.S. soldiers in the ETO.

He was a founder of the American Board of Surgery and the Society for Consultants to the Surgeons General of the Armed Forces of the United States.

[1] The later years of Cutler's life were primarily devoted to surgical practice, teaching, and research at Harvard Medical School.

For his contributions to military medicine in the Second World War, he received a second Distinguished Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Legion of Merit from the United States War Department, the Order of the British Empire by King George VI of Britain, the Croix de Guerre by the French government, the Companion of the Order of the Bath, and Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur.

In June 1947, he received the prestigious Henry Jacob Bigelow Medal of the Boston Surgical Society for his accomplishments in surgery.