# Vivien Thomas (@vivien-thomas)

Vivien Thomas was a surgical laboratory technician and educator. At Vanderbilt and Johns Hopkins, Thomas developed exceptional experimental-surgery skills despite being classified and paid for years as a laboratory employee.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Vivien Thomas's public record._

## Topics

- [Teaching Surgeons](/@vivien-thomas/teaching-surgeons.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Experimental Surgery](/@vivien-thomas/experimental-surgery.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [The Blue Baby Operation](/@vivien-thomas/the-blue-baby-operation.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://medicalarchives.jhmi.edu:8443/thomas/
- blog: https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/heart-vascular-institute/about-us/history/blue-baby-operation
- blog: https://www.nlm.nih.gov/exhibition/aframsurgeons/pioneers.html

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "vivien-thomas", "question": "…"}`.