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4 unusual facts about Pamela Clauss


Pamela Clauss

Her funeral Mass was held at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, where funeral services for Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Aaliyah, among many others, were also held.

She went on to pioneer cardiac bypass surgery techniques at the Mayo Clinic, at New York University and at the New York Medical College.

Three years later she went to the Mayo Clinic as part of an exchange-training program, and in 1965 she joined the open-heart surgery team of Dr. Roy H. Clauss (who would become her husband in 1970) and Dr. George Reed in NYC.

Roy Clauss

Dr. Clauss and his second wife, Pamela Heavey Clauss, a surgical and heart pump nurse, along with Greek surgeon, Dr. George Sanoudos, established the first open heart surgery facility in Athens, Greece in the mid-1970s.



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