biography
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Shumway, Norman (Edward)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1923– )
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| biography:
| Cardiac surgeon, born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA. He studied at Vanderbilt and Minnesota universities, then joined the faculty at the Stanford University School of Medicine in 1958, where he and his team have been active in many aspects of cardiovascular surgery, including cardiac transplantation. He did much of the early experimental work in the field, before heart transplants were attempted in human beings, and performed the first adult heart transplant in the USA in 1968. |
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