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Blalock married Mary Chambers O'Bryan in October 1930. The two had met while Blalock was at Vanderbilt and she worked for the Vanderbilt admissions office. Together they had three children: William Rice Blalock, Mary Elizabeth Blalock and Alfred Dandy Blalock. Together, they lived a happy marriage for 28 years until her death in 1958.
Vivien Theodore Thomas (August 29, 1910 [1] – November 26, 1985) [2] was an American laboratory supervisor who, in the 1940s, played a major role in developing a procedure now called the Blalock–Thomas–Taussig shunt used to treat blue baby syndrome (now known as cyanotic heart disease) along with surgeon Alfred Blalock and cardiologist Helen B. Taussig. [3]
Alfred Blalock was an American surgeon most known for his work on the Blue Baby syndrome. [2] C. Rollins Hanlon was also an American surgeon but was best known for his work in cardiology. [3] The procedure that these two men created, known as the Blalock–Hanlon procedure, was a new concept termed atrial septectomy.
Something the Lord Made is a 2004 American made-for-television biographical drama film about the black cardiac pioneer Vivien Thomas (1910–1985) and his complex and volatile partnership with white surgeon Alfred Blalock (1899–1964), the "Blue Baby doctor" who pioneered modern heart surgery.
At Johns Hopkins, he worked with Dr. Alfred Blalock and assisted in the first "Blue Baby" procedure to correct an infant's congenital heart defect. [4] He is of Irish descent. [5] In 1946, Cooley was called to active duty with the Army Medical Corps and served as chief of surgical services at the station hospital in Linz, Austria.
Two days after the artist born Anthony Leonard Platt died at age 43, as confirmed by his wife Sherkita Long-Platt via a Facebook announcement, his spouse has since shared his cause of death with TMZ.
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