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3 unusual facts about Norman Shumway


C. Walton Lillehei

A dedicated educator, Lillehei trained more than 150 cardiac surgeons from 40 nations, including Norman Shumway and Christiaan Barnard, who formed half of the quartet which pioneered heart transplantation (the others being Richard Lower and Adrian Kantrowitz).

Heart–lung transplant

Dr. Norman Shumway laid the groundwork for heart lung transplantation with his experiments into heart transplantation at Stanford in the mid 1960s.

Norman Shumway

alongside future fellow transplantation pioneer Christiaan Barnard, and was awarded a surgical doctorate in 1956.



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