User:Ewingdo/sandbox/list of cardiothoracic surgeons

A list of people notable in the field of cardiac surgery.

A

 * Angelo Actis Dato
 * Robert Adams (1791–1875), Irish surgeon, along with William Stokes known for the eponymous Stokes–Adams disease.
 * Ian Aird (1905–1962), Scottish cardiothoracic surgeon.
 * Akutsu
 * Duff Alan
 * Ottavio Alfieri
 * Kazuhiko Atsumi and colleagues of Tokyo School of Medicine developed a hydraulically driven plastic heart.

B

 * Henry Theodore Bahnson (1920–2003), American surgeon noted for basic research of the pulmonary circulation, coarctation of the aorta and the association with kidney-related hypertension, and his pioneering role in the excision of thoracic aortic aneurysms.
 * Charles Philamore Bailey
 * Christiaan Neethling Barnard (1922–2001), South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first highly publicized heart transplant in 1967.
 * Sir Brian Gerald Barratt-Boyes (1924–2006), New Zealand cardiac surgeon who pioneered aortic valve replacement surgery.
 * Randas José Vilela Batista
 * Arthur C. Beall, Jr.
 * Claude Beck (1894–1971), American cardiac surgeon, known for innovating various cardiac surgery techniques and performing the first defibrillation of the exposed human heart.
 * Douglas M. Behrendt ??
 * Harvey W. Bender
 * Hugh Bentall
 * F. Bernhard
 * Wilfred Gordon Bigelow (1913–2005), Canadian heart surgeon known for his role in developing the artificial pacemaker and the use of hypothermia in open heart surgery.
 * Viking Olov Björk
 * Alfred Blalock (1899–1964), American surgeon noted for his work on shock and Tetralogy of Fallot, and the Blalock-Thomas-Taussig Shunt.
 * L. Brauer
 * Russell Claude Brock (fix name)
 * Allan Burns (1781–1813), Scottish surgeon known for the classic monograph "Observations on Some of the Most Frequent and Important Diseases of the Heart" and his study of cardiovascular disease.

C

 * Alain F. Carpentier
 * Alexis Carrel (1873–1944), French surgeon who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1912 for pioneering vascular suturing techniques and invented the first perfusion pump with Charles A. Lindbergh opening the way to organ transplantation.
 * William Chardack
 * Richard Clarke
 * Bill Cleland
 * Conrad
 * Denton Arthur Cooley (1920–2016), American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart.
 * Clarence Crafoord
 * Stanley Crawford
 * Cromie
 * Cross
 * Elliot Cutler

D

 * Michael Ellis DeBakey (1908–2008), Lebanese-American cardiac surgeon and vascular surgeon with contributions to the fields of coronary bypass surgery, carotid endarterectomy, artificial hearts, and ventricular assist devices.
 * Vladimir Demikhov
 * E. Derra in Düsseldorf
 * William C. DeVries
 * Richard A. DeWall
 * Anthony R. C. Dobell
 * Eugene Doyen
 * Charles Dubost (surgeon)
 * Carlos Duran

E

 * Paul A. Ebert
 * Donald Brian Effler (1951–2004), American cardiothoracic surgeon.
 * Emery
 * Sir Terence English
 * John Eric Erichsen (1818–1896), Danish-born British surgeon with pioneering observations on the consequences of experimental ligation of the coronary arteries and his important book on aneurysms, published more than 150 years ago.

F

 * René Gerónimo Favaloro (1923–2000), Argentine cardiac surgeon and educator known for his pioneering work on coronary artery bypass surgery using the great saphenous vein.
 * Thomas J. Fogarty
 * K.E. Frey
 * Seymour Furman (1931–2006), American cardiac surgeon known for early pacemaker contributions.

G

 * Edward Garrett
 * John Heysham Gibbon, Jr. (1903–1973), American surgeon known for inventing the heart–lung machine and performing subsequent open heart surgeries.
 * Robert P. Glover (1913–1961), American cardiothoracic surgeon and early founder of the American College of Cardiology.
 * Vincent L. Gott
 * Evarts Graham
 * George E. Green
 * Robert Edward Gross (1905–1988), American surgeon and a medical researcher who performed early work in pediatric heart surgery at Boston Children's Hospital. (Gross arterial well)
 * Alfred Gunning
 * George James Guthrie (1785–1856), English surgeon with important contributions to vascular surgery.

H

 * J. Alex Haller Jr.
 * Hancock
 * C. Rollins Hanlon
 * James D. Hardy
 * Alden H. Harken
 * Dwight Emary Harken
 * Harvey
 * Roland Hetzer
 * Luther Hill
 * Matthew Horton
 * Hufnagel
 * John Hunter (1728–1793), Scottish surgeon who studied congenital abnormalities of the heart and acquired cardiac pathology.

I

 * Ionescu

J

 * Robert Jarvik
 * Adib Domingos Jatene (1929–2014), Brazilian thoracic surgeon, inventor of the Jatene procedure.
 * Wenner Dudley Johnson
 * Jones
 * James R. Jude

K

 * Barry Kahan
 * Takahiro Katsumata
 * Kay
 * Wilbert Joseph Keon (1935–2019), Canadian cardiac surgeon. Founder of the University of Ottawa Heart Institute in 1976.
 * John Webster Kirklin
 * Martin Kirschner
 * W. Klinner
 * Willem Kolff

L

 * Gerald Lawrie
 * Derward Lepley
 * Floyd J. Lewis
 * Clarence Walton Lillehei
 * Domingo Liotta
 * William P. Longmire
 * Floyd D. Loop
 * Richard Rowland Lower (1929–2008), American cardiac surgery, helped develop the field of heart transplantation.

M

 * George J. Magovern
 * Rudolph Matas
 * Denis Melrose
 * George Morris
 * Morrow
 * William H. Muller
 * William Thornton Mustard (1914–1987), Canadian surgeon, devised the operation known as the Mustard procedure for correction of transposition of the great vessels.

N

 * Demetre Nicoloff

O

 * Alton Ochsner
 * John L. Ochsner
 * Oyer first successful bridge to cardiac transplantation

P

 * D. John Parker (1938–1997), British cardiac surgeon noted for early work comparing angioplasty with surgical and medical treatment of coronary disease.
 * Pierce

R

 * Judson G. Randolph
 * Ludwig Rehn
 * Francis Robicsek
 * Donald Nixon Ross

S

 * David Coston Sabiston, Jr. (1924–2009), American cardiothoracic surgeon who performed first saphenous vein graft coronary artery bypass surgery.
 * Satoshi Saito
 * F. Sauerbruch
 * V. Schmieden
 * Willam C. Sealy
 * F. Sebening
 * Åke Senning
 * Donald Shiley
 * Harris B. Shumacker Jr.
 * Norman Edward Shumway (1923–2006), American cardiothoracic surgeon who was a pioneer of heart surgery at Stanford University and the first to perform an adult human to human heart transplantation in the United States.
 * Arthur Harold Makins Siddons
 * Smeloff
 * Henry Souttar
 * FrankC. Spencer
 * Albert Starr
 * Albert Start
 * William Stokes (1804–1878), British physician and surgeon, Cheyne–Stokes respiration and Adams–Stokes syndrome are named after him.
 * John Streider
 * Jackson H. Stuckey
 * H.C. Swan

T

 * Taber
 * Helen Brooke Taussig (1898–1986), American physician, known for research into congenital heart defects, with Alfred Blalock, perfected the Blalock–Taussig shunt.
 * Oswald Tubbs
 * Theodore Tuffier

W

 * Wada
 * Robert B. Wallace
 * James Wardrop (1782–1869), Scottish surgeon and ophthalmologist, known in cardiology for his books on heart disease and aneurysms.
 * John Collins Warren (1778–1856), American surgeon, published the first monograph on heart disease in the United States.
 * Stephen Westaby
 * Williams
 * Geoffrey Woller

Y

 * Magdi Habib Yacoub

Z

 * R. Zenker
 * Nazih Zudhi