Guy LeRoy Hunner

Guy LeRoy Hunner (1868–1957) was an American physician, surgeon, urologist and gynecologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

Hunner received his M.D. in 1897 as a member of the first graduating class of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He was the first resident under Howard Atwood Kelly to have graduated from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Hunner became the chief resident of the School of Gynecology, and was the Chief of the Urological Division of the Department of Gynecology until his retirement at age 70.[1]

Hunner was the first to describe the radial method of cauterization for chronic inflammation of the cervix[2] in 1906, and was the first to describe interstitial cystitis as a distinct disease entity in 1915.[3]

Hunner was born in Alma, Wisconsin.

  1. ^ "Guy Leroy Hunner 1868-1957". Portrait Collection. The Johns Hopkins University and The Johns Hopkins Health System. 2018. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Nongonorrheal endocervicitis and vaginitis". California and Western Medicine. Europe PMC. September 1931. Retrieved 22 April 2019.
  3. ^ Meijlink, Jane M. (2014). "Interstitial cystitis and the painful bladder: A brief history of nomenclature, definitions and criteria". International Journal of Urology. 21: 4–12. doi:10.1111/iju.12307. PMID 24807485. S2CID 26719630.