Malt (November 12, 1931 – October 5, 2002) was an American clinical surgeon and teacher at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Harvard Medical School for over 40 years.
Initially interested in psychiatry, an experience in William McDermott's operating room as a medical student persuaded him to elect surgery as his calling.
[6] Following in the footsteps of Churchill, Malt focused his efforts on clinical surgery and advancing medicine in the laboratory for the bulk of his career.
[6] Malt was named Chief of Gastroenterology at MGH in 1970, Visiting Surgeon in 1972 and Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School in 1975.
Malt "was afraid [he] might overlook some unseen serious injury to some other part of [Knowles'] body, or that because of insufficient restoration of blood supply he’d get gas gangrene or some other infection.
Then they waited to see whether the operation would take, raising their hopes when the hand regained a healthy pink color and a pulse could be felt in the wrist.
"[7] Previously many arms and legs had been saved after being partially severed, but Everett was the first to have undergone a successful grafting of a major extremity that had been cut away completely.
“All we did,” said Malt, “was apply techniques we’ve known about for a long time and simply never had occasion to correlate before…The astonishing thing was not the newness of the operation but the teamwork—the way 12 doctors with expert skills, as distinguished a collection of authorities as you could find anywhere, were willing to stand by and feed the incomparable extent of their knowledge to me, for no gain other than to know they had contributed.”[7] · Fellow of the School for Advanced Study, MIT, 1963 · Fellow, Medical Foundation of Ecuador, 1963 · University of Leeds, Honorary Fellow, 1965 · Fernando Ocaranza Award, Mexican National Academy of Medicine, 1971 · Arris & Gale Lecturer, Royal College of Surgeons, 1975 · Chairman, Conference on Colonic Carcinogenesis, Black Forest, 1981 · Scientific Review Committee, New England Heart Association, 1972–73 · Scientific Advisory Committee, Damon Runyon Cancer Fund, 1972–77 · Research Committee, The Medical Foundation, 1972–78 · National Research Council Committee for Veterans Administration, 1974–76 · Editor, Surgical Techniques Illustrated, 1974–80 · Board of Surgical Advisors, National Cancer Institute, 1975–77 · Board Member, American Board of Surgery, 1977–83 · Editorial Board, Jordan Medical Journal, 1981–83 · Senior Member, American Board of Surgery, 1984-1997 · Surgery Program Chair, XIV International Cancer Congress, 1979–82 · Associate Editor, New England Journal of Medicine, 1965 – 1993 · Co-editor, Oxford Textbook of Surgery, 1987-1994 · MERIT award, National Institutes of Health, 1988–98 · International Advisory Board, Current Practice in Surgery, 1989-1997 · Trustee of Donations for Education in Liberia, 1989-1997 · Surgikos Lecturer, Association for Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland, 1991 · Vice-President, Society for Surgery of Alimentary Tract, 1991–92 · Scientific Advisory Committee, Columbia University, Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1992–95 · International Scientific Advisory Board, European Postgraduate Gastro-Surgical School, 1993.