What Is a Whipple Procedure? A Whipple procedure is the main surgery used to treat tumors in the head of the pancreas. Also called a pancreaticoduodenectomy, it’s named after Allen Whipple, MD ...

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Kausch and Whipple et al. developed pancreaticoduodenectomy as a two-step procedure: resection on one day followed by later reconstruction of the ...

The Whipple’s procedure was actually first described by the Italian surgeon Alessandro Codivilla in 1889 and first performed by the German surgeon Walther Kausch in 1909.

Adam and Adnan Alseidi, MD performed UCSF’s and the Bay Area’s first pure robotic Whipple procedure in September 2022 and the team has since performed multiple robotic Whipple surgeries. About UCSF ...

According to Mergener, the Whipple procedure, also known as pancreatico-duodenectomy, is named after distinguished surgeon Allen Oldfather Whipple, who was born in Iran in 1881.