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Richard Whitlock FRCSC is a Canadian cardiovascular surgeon and intensivist, the Canada Research Chair in Cardiovascular Surgery and a professor of surgery at McMaster University Medical School. He is most well known for being the principal investigator of the SIRS (Steroids in Cardiac Surgery) trial and the LAAOS III (Left Atrial Appendage ...
John Carter Callaghan, OC AOE (October 1, 1923 – April 6, 2004) was a Canadian cardiac surgeon who "pioneered open-heart surgery in Alberta" [1]. Born in Hamilton, Ontario on October 1, 1923, [2] he received his medical degree from the University of Toronto in 1946.
As President of the Colorado Heart Association, he founded one of the early jogging programs promoting heart health. J. Willis Hurst: 1920 2011 United States Cardiologist of former U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Editor of Hurst's the Heart. Vladimir Kanjuh: 1929: Macedonia [22] Yariv Khaykin: Canada [23] John Kjekshus: 1936: Norway
The MHI is founded in 1954 by Paul David, and along with the Ottawa Heart Institute is considered one of the largest cardiology institutes in the world, which is the first educational hospital on cardiovascular diseases in Canada, and is ranked as one of the largest preventive medicine centres in Quebec. [2]
UOHI was founded in 1976 by Dr. Wilbert Keon, with financial support from the Ontario Ministry of Education.Keon worked with numerous partners, including all of the hospitals in the region, the University of Ottawa, and the Ottawa Hospital Regional District Planning council, to ensure the vision of a world-renowned institute would unfold as planned.
He served during World War II as a captain in the Royal Canadian Medical Army Corps, performing battle surgery on the frontlines. He was appointed to the surgical staff of Toronto General Hospital in 1947, after spending a year at Johns Hopkins Medical School , and then a year later to the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto in 1948.
Surgeon in the field of congenital heart defects William Thornton Mustard OC MBE (August 8, 1914 – December 11, 1987) was a Canadian physician and cardiac surgeon . In 1949, he was one of the first to perform open-heart surgery using a mechanical heart pump and biological lung on a dog at the Banting Institute.
Moshe Gueron (1926–2017), best known for his pioneering research about human heart influences in result of scorpion sting. Gavril Ilizarov (1921–1992), Russian orthopedic surgeon who invented the procedure to lengthen or reshape limb bones. Walter Lawrence Jr. (1925–2021), surgical oncologist and leader in civil rights health equity efforts