John E. Hoopes papers

The John E. Hoopes papers, 1940-2012 (inclusive) are the product of Hoopes's professional, research, writing, teaching, and administrative activities throughout his career. The materials result from his time as an Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery and later Chairman, Plastic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and founding Chairman of the Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic as well as the Chairman, Plastic Surgery Division, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri. The papers are arranged in three series: I. Professional organizations records, 1940-2012; II. Research records, 1966-1987; and III. Johns Hopkins University and other professional records, 1964-1999. Professional organizations records (Series I) consists of materials from Hoopes's professional activities with the American Association of Plastic Surgeons, as well as the National Institutes of Health, the Plastic Surgery Research Laboratory, the American Board of Plastic Surgery, the American College of Surgeons, the American Board of Surgery, the American Burn Association, the American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons, the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, the Northeastern Society of Plastic Surgeons, and others. Materials include correspondence, conference schedules, publications, planning documents, and other arrangements, as well as correspondence, papers printed in conference materials, awards, photographs from meetings, and memorabilia. Subjects of those papers include reconstructive breast and facial surgeries as well as other cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery topics. Research records (Series II) consists of materials related to John E. Hoopes's career as a scientific researcher in the field of plastic surgery, including lecture notes, audio tapes, and slides from presentations of his research; grant applications and the proceeding papers resulting from grant research; and collected publications related directly to his research foci. Topics of these papers, grants, and other research records and notes include issues of reconstructive surgery such as the role of metal ions in ischemia (restricted blood flow due to an obstruction) and reperfusion injury (damage caused when blood flow returns to tissue after ischemia) in skin flaps, pedicles (parts of grafts that are temporarily attached to their original site) of the head and neck, facial trauma, and myocutaneous free flaps (blood-supplied flaps consisting of skin, tissue, muscle, and fascia), among others. Johns Hopkins University and other professional records (Series III) consists of papers relating to his time as an Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery and later Chairman, Plastic Surgery, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and founding Chairman of the Johns Hopkins Gender Identity Clinic. Further papers are from his role as the Chairman, Plastic Surgery Division, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri. This includes correspondence and materials about Hoopes's appointment at Washington University and then at John Hopkins Hospital. Contains materials relating to the structure and future planning of the department of Plastic Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, laboratory management, as well as Hoopes's involvement at the Face/Trauma Center at the University of Maryland, the combined program in Plastic Surgery at the University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins Hospital, the Children's Medical Hospital, and the Francis Scott Key Medical Center. The series also contains materials relating to the formation and organization of the Johns Hopkins University Hospital Gender Identity Clinic, including committee meeting minutes, articles and newspaper clippings relating to the foundation of the Clinic and to contemporary understandings of gender identity and gender affirmation surgery, and some related notes. Papers are entirely in English.