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Cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation Fernando Antonio Bermúdez Arias: 1933: 2007: Venezuela: Barouh Berkovits: 1926: 2012: Czechoslovakia: Pioneered cardiac defibrillators and pace makers [9] Richard N. Fogoros: United States [10] Werner Forssmann: 1904: 1979: Germany: 1929 first cardiac ...
Lamelas is the Chief of Cardiac surgery and Professor of Surgery at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. He is board certified in general surgery, cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, and surgical critical care, and is a member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS). [5] [6]
Cardiac surgery, or cardiovascular surgery, is surgery on the heart or great vessels performed by cardiac surgeons.It is often used to treat complications of ischemic heart disease (for example, with coronary artery bypass grafting); to correct congenital heart disease; or to treat valvular heart disease from various causes, including endocarditis, rheumatic heart disease, [1] and ...
Walter Randolph "Ranny" Chitwood Jr. is known for his work as a cardiothoracic surgeon [1] [dead link ] at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University located in Greenville, North Carolina. [2] [dead link ] Chitwood is recognized as the first heart surgeon to perform robot-assisted heart valve surgery in the US. [citation needed]
Opened in 2000; 366 beds; 636,000 square feet (59,100 m 2); Cardiology/Open Heart Surgery Center; Chapel and chaplains; Community Outreach Programs; Da Vinci robotic surgical system
Lawrence H. Cohn, (March 11, 1937 – January 9, 2016) was an American pioneering cardiac surgeon, researcher, and medical educator.He had been on the surgical staff at Harvard Medical School since 1971 and had been a Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School since 1980.
Minimally invasive cardiac surgery was pioneered by Dr Joseph T McGinn, Jr. The first minimally invasive heart cardiac surgery was performed in the United States on January 21, 2005, at The Heart Institute at Staten Island University Hospital in Staten Island, New York by a team led by Dr. Joseph T. McGinn.
John Webster Kirklin (April 5, 1917 – April 21, 2004) was an American cardiothoracic surgeon, general surgeon, prolific author and medical educator who is best remembered for refining John Gibbon's heart–lung bypass machine via a pump-oxygenator to make feasible under direct vision, routine open-heart surgery and repairs of some congenital heart defects.