Lewis Albert Sayre (1820-1900), US surgeon. Sayre studied medicine at what is now Columbia University, New York. His career as a surgeon was spent in New York at the Bellevue Hospital and the Charity Hospital on Blackwells Island. He specialised in bone and joint disorders, and in 1861 was appointed professor of orthopedic surgery, fractures and dislocations. Operations that he pioneered included surgery for hip ankylosis, and the technique of wrapping patient's in plaster of Paris to correct spine deformities. One of the founders of the American Medical Association, he was elected its Vice-President in 1866, and its President in 1880.