Warren Henry Cole

Warren Henry Cole (24 July 1898 – 25 May 1990) was an American surgeon, a pioneer in the field of adjunctive treatments for surgical cancer patients.^[1] With Evarts Ambrose Graham, he co-developed in the process of visualizing the gall bladder with X-rays by using contrast media, a process used in the diagnosis of gall bladder disease, in 1924.

Born in Clay Center, Kansas in 1898^[2] Cole received his M.D. from Washington University School of Medicine, and served on the faculty for several years. Cole left Washington University in 1936 to serve as a professor at University of Illinois Chicago, a position he held for 30 years. He served as a president of the American Cancer Society from 1959–1960.