César Roux

César Roux (1857 to 1934) was a Swiss surgeon born in Mont-la-Ville who died in Lausanne. He studied medicine at the University of Bern, graduated in 1880 and stayed there as an assistant to the surgeon Theodor Kocher. In 1887 he became chief of both surgical departments at the cantonal hospital in Lausanne, and when the Academy of Lausanne became a university in 1890 he was appointed director of its surgical clinic. He described the Roux-en-Y procedure, a surgical reconnection of the digestive tract that still carries his name, and in 1926 he performed the first successful surgical removal of a pheochromocytoma. He had also been named associate professor of forensic medicine at the Academy in 1885.