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Edward "Ted" B. Diethrich, MD (August 6, 1935 – February 23, 2017), was an American cardiovascular surgeon, author, and innovator. He was renowned for his contributions to the field of vascular surgery and for founding the Arizona Heart Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona. [1]
As President of the Colorado Heart Association, he founded one of the early jogging programs promoting heart health. J. Willis Hurst: 1920 2011 United States Cardiologist of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Editor of Hurst's the Heart. Vladimir Kanjuh: 1929: Macedonia [22] Yariv Khaykin: Canada [23] John Kjekshus: 1936: Norway
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]
Alain Frédéric Carpentier (born 11 August 1933) is a French cardiac surgeon whom the President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery calls the "father of modern mitral valve repair". He is most well-known for the development and popularization of a number of mitral valve repair techniques.
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 ...
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.
History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 53-68; Cooper, David (2010) Open Heart: The Radical Surgeons who Revolutionized Medicine (Kaplan Publishing) ISBN 978-1607144908; Goor, Daniel A. (2007) The Genius of C. Walton Lillehei and The True History of Open Heart Surgery (Vantage Press) ISBN 9780533155576
By 2012 he had performed 10,000 heart surgeries at Michigan mostly on babies, [1] and that year he was also appointed chair of a newly created department of cardiac surgery at Michigan. [ 2 ] References