William Harrison Frist is an American physician,businessman,conservationist and policymaker who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1995 to 2007. A member of the Republican Party,he also served as Senate Majority Leader from 2003 to 2007. Born in Nashville,Tennessee,Frist studied government and health care policy at Princeton University and earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from Harvard Medical School. He trained as a cardiothoracic transplant surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and Stanford University School of Medicine,and later founded the Vanderbilt Transplant Center. In 1994,he defeated incumbent Democratic Senator Jim Sasser.
The Stanford University School of Medicine is the medical school of Stanford University and is located in Stanford,California,United States. It traces its roots to the Medical Department of the University of the Pacific,founded in San Francisco in 1858. This medical institution,then called Cooper Medical College,was acquired by Stanford in 1908. The medical school moved to the Stanford campus near Palo Alto,California,in 1959.
Magdi Habib Yacoub is an Egyptian-British retired professor of cardiothoracic surgery at Imperial College London,best known for his early work in repairing heart valves with surgeon Donald Ross,adapting the Ross procedure,where the diseased aortic valve is replaced with the person's own pulmonary valve,devising the arterial switch operation (ASO) in transposition of the great arteries,and establishing the heart transplantation centre at Harefield Hospital in 1980 with a heart transplant for Derrick Morris,who at the time of his death was Europe's longest-surviving heart transplant recipient. Yacoub subsequently performed the UK's first combined heart and lung transplant in 1983.
Bruce A. Reitz is an American cardiothoracic surgeon,best known for leading the first combined heart-lung transplantation in 1981 with pioneer heart transplant surgeon Norman Shumway. He obtained an undergraduate degree at Stanford University a medical degree at Yale Medical School and completed an internship at Johns Hopkins Hospital (1971) and residencies and fellowships at Stanford University Hospital the National Institutes of Health (1974). He joined the surgical faculty at Stanford University (1978) then became chief of cardiac surgery at Johns Hopkins University (1982–92) and Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford (1992–2005). In 1995 he conducted another pioneering operation:the first Heartport procedure,using a device that allows minimally invasive coronary bypass and valve operations. Reitz also played a major role in the resident education program at Stanford,which he reorganized and maintained.
Randall Bertram Griepp was an American cardiothoracic surgeon who collaborated with Norman Shumway in the development of the first successful heart transplant procedures in the U.S. He had an international reputation for contributions to the surgical treatment of aortic aneurysms and aortic dissection and in heart and lung transplantations. He received nearly $8 million in grants from the National Heart,Lung,and Blood Institute.
Peer Michael Portner was a heart researcher whose work led to the development of the ventricular assist device,an electrical pump that permits patients in heart failure to survive until a heart transplant could be performed.
Robert E. Michler is an American heart surgeon specializing in heart surgery,aortic and mitral valve repair,coronary artery bypass surgery,aneurysm surgery,and management of the failing heart. In 2017,Michler received the Vladimir Borakovsky Prize in Moscow from the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation for “his personal contributions to the development of cardiovascular surgery”.
Norman Edward Shumway was a pioneer of heart surgery at Stanford University. He was the 67th president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the first to perform an adult human to human heart transplantation in the United States.
Charles D Fraser,Jr. is the medical director and surgeon of the Texas Center for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Disease at Dell Children's Medical Center. Formerly,Fraser was chief of congenital heart surgery and cardiac surgeon-in-charge at Texas Children's Hospital,the nation's largest pediatric hospital,served as chief of the Congenital Heart Surgery Division at Baylor College of Medicine,and director of the Adult Congenital Heart Surgery Program at the Texas Heart Institute.
Bhagawan Koirala is a Nepalese Cardiothoracic surgeon,professor and Social worker. He led the team of Nepalese surgeons in Shahid Gangalal National Heart Centre for Open-heart surgery in Nepal. He is considered a good manager of the public hospitals.
Sir Terence Alexander Hawthorne English is a South African-born British retired cardiac surgeon. He was consultant cardiothoracic surgeon at Papworth Hospital and Addenbrooke's Hospital,Cambridge,1973–1995. After starting a career in mining engineering,English switched to medicine and went on to lead the team that performed Britain's first successful heart transplant in August 1979 at Papworth,and soon established it as one of Europe's leading heart–lung transplant programmes.
Panangipalli Venugopal was an Indian cardiovascular surgeon and hospital administrator from Rajahmundry,Andhra Pradesh,India who is widely regarded as a pioneer in cardiac surgery. The Government of India honored him,in 1998,with the Padma Bhushan,the third highest civilian award,for his services to the field of Medicine.
Sharon Ann Hunt is a cardiology professor and Director of the Post Heart Transplant Programme in Palo Alto,California and is affiliated with Stanford University Medical Center,professionally known for her work in the care of patients after heart transplantation.
Margaret Allen is an American cardiothoracic surgeon and an academic at the Benaroya Research Institute. She was the first woman to perform a heart transplant and is a former president of the United Network for Organ Sharing.
Jeffrey Philip Gold is an American surgeon,medical educator,and academic administrator who has been the president of the University of Nebraska system since July 1,2024. Prior to that,he served as the chancellor of the University of Nebraska Medical Center since February 1,2014,as well as the executive vice president and provost of the University of Nebraska system since 2021. He also previously served as the interim chancellor and then chancellor of the University of Nebraska Omaha from May 2017 to June 2021.
John Charles Baldwin was an American cardiac surgeon and academic administrator. He served as the surgery department chairman at Baylor College of Medicine,as dean of Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine,as president and CEO of the Harvard Immune Disease Institute,and as president of the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center.
Robert Samuel Decosta Higgins MD,MSHA is an American surgeon working with heart–lung transplants. He is president,Brigham and Women's Hospital;Executive Vice President,Mass General Brigham.
Stuart William Jamieson is a British cardiothoracic surgeon,specialising in pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE),a surgical procedure performed to remove organized clotted blood (thrombus) from pulmonary arteries in people with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH).
Jack Greene Copeland is an American cardiothoracic surgeon,who has established procedures in heart transplantation including repeat heart transplantation,the implantation of total artificial hearts (TAH) to bridge the time to heart transplant,innovations in left ventricular assist devices (LVAD) and the technique of "piggybacking" a second heart in a person,while leaving them the original.
Edward B. Stinson is an American retired cardiothoracic surgeon living in Los Altos,United States,who assisted Norman Shumway in America's first adult human-to-human heart transplantation on 6 January 1968 at Stanford University.
