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Helen Brooke Taussig was an American cardiologist,working in Baltimore and Boston,who founded the field of pediatric cardiology. She is credited with developing the concept for a procedure that would extend the lives of children born with Tetralogy of Fallot. This concept was applied in practice as a procedure known as the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig shunt. The procedure was developed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas,who were Taussig's colleagues at the Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Children's National Hospital is a nationally ranked,freestanding,323-bed,pediatric acute care children's hospital located in Washington D.C. It is affiliated with the George Washington University School of Medicine and the Howard University College of Medicine. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants,children,teens,and young adults aged 0–21 throughout the region. The hospital features an ACS verified level I pediatric trauma center,the only one in the District of Columbia. Its pediatric intensive care unit and neonatal intensive care units serve the region. The hospital also has a rooftop helipad for critical pediatric transport.
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James K. Kirklin is an American cardiac surgeon who has made significant scientific and surgical contributions in the fields of heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support devices to assist the pumping action of the heart. He was formerly Professor of Surgery (1987-2022),Director of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery (2006-2016),Director of the James and John Kirklin Institute for Research in Surgical Outcomes (KIRSO) (2016–2022),and Co-Director of Comprehensive Cardiovascular Center (2011-2017) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). While at UAB,he held the UAB Cardiovascular Research Chair (1998-2006),the John Kirklin Chair of Cardiovascular Surgery (2006-2017),and the James Kirklin Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery (2017-2022).
Jane Somerville is a British emeritus professor of cardiology,Imperial College,who is best known for defining the concept and subspecialty of grown ups with congenital heart disease (GUCH) and being chosen as the physician involved with Britain's first heart transplantation in 1968.
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Willis John Potts was an American pediatric surgeon and one of the earliest physicians to focus on the surgical treatment of heart problems in children. Potts set up one of the country's first pediatric surgery programs at Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
Lisa Robinson is a Canadian clinician-scientist. She is a University of Toronto professor in the Department of Paediatrics and the Dean of the Temerty Faculty of Medicine,former Head of the Division of Nephrology at The Hospital for Sick Children,a Senior Scientist at the SickKids Research Institute,President American Pediatric Society 2022-2023,and the first-ever Chief Diversity officer for the Faculty of Medicine at University of Toronto.
Leonard Lee Bailey (1942–2019) was an American surgeon who garnered international media attention in 1984 for transplanting a baboon's heart into a human infant.
Rosemary Radley-Smith was a British paediatric cardiologist who worked at Harefield Hospital,west London for many years and founded several charities. In 2001,she received the Pride of Britain Award.
Ruth L. Collins-Nakai is a retired Canadian cardiologist,educator,researcher,physician leader,healthcare advisor,and public health advocate.
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