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In 1955, he joined the Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at the University of Alberta Hospital and performed Canada's first successful open heart surgery. [3] In 1985, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 1986, he was inducted into the Alberta Order of Excellence.
Wilfred Gordon "Bill" Bigelow OC FRSC (June 18, 1913 – March 27, 2005) was a Canadian heart surgeon known for his role in developing the artificial pacemaker and the use of hypothermia in open heart surgery.
Rao is credited with building Canada's largest Advanced Heart Failure Program. [1] He was also the first cardiovascular surgeon in Canada to implant HeartMate, a mechanical heart technology he imported from his experience under Dr. Mehmet Oz of the "Dr. Oz Show" in New York. [1] He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of ...
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Surgeon in the field of congenital heart defects William Thornton Mustard OC MBE (August 8, 1914 – December 11, 1987) was a Canadian physician and cardiac surgeon . In 1949, he was one of the first to perform open-heart surgery using a mechanical heart pump and biological lung on a dog at the Banting Institute.
Theodor Kocher (1841–1917) — thyroid surgery; first surgeon to win the Nobel Prize; Rene Theophile Hyacinthe Laennec (1781–1826) — inventor of the stethoscope; Janet Lane-Claypon (1877–1967) — pioneer of epidemiology; Thomas Linacre (1460–1524) — founder of Royal College of Physicians; Joseph Lister (1827–1912) — pioneer of ...
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