swap_horiz Donald Ross Alternatives

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René Favaloro

René Favaloro was an Argentine cardiac surgeon whose work at the Cleveland Clinic helped establish coronary artery bypas...

Pioneer Cardiac Argentinian Bypass

9.55 Brilliant

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Walton Lillehei

Walton Lillehei was an American cardiac surgeon who helped make open-heart operations for congenital defects possible. A...

American Pioneer Cardiac Pediatric

9.53 Brilliant

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John Kirklin

Mechanical support for circulation was central to John Kirklin's contribution to cardiac surgery. An American surgeon wo...

American Pioneer Cardiac Mayo Clinic

9.50 Brilliant

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Andreas Grüntzig

Andreas Gruntzig was a German-born physician who worked in Switzerland and helped found modern interventional cardiology...

Swiss Pioneer Cardiac Angioplasty

9.18 Excellent

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Aldo Castañeda

Aldo Castaneda was a Guatemalan-born cardiac surgeon known for advancing operations for congenital heart disease in infa...

Pioneer Cardiac Pediatric Guatemalan American

9.12 Excellent

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Roy Calne

Roy Calne was a British surgeon and researcher whose work helped establish clinical organ transplantation. Based at Camb...

Pioneer British Immunosuppression Transplant

9.10 Excellent

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Francis Fontan

Francis Fontan was a French cardiac surgeon who developed an operation for patients born with a single effective pumping...

French Pioneer Cardiac Pediatric

9.08 Excellent

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Albert Starr

Albert Starr is an American cardiac surgeon who worked with engineer Lowell Edwards to develop the Starr-Edwards prosthe...

American Pioneer Cardiac Valve

9.06 Excellent

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Hugh Owen Thomas

Hugh Owen Thomas (1834-1891) was a Welsh surgeon whose work helped establish modern orthopedics in Britain. He developed...

Orthopedic 19TH Century Pioneer British

9.00 Excellent

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Åke Senning

Åke Senning (1915-2000) was a Swedish cardiac surgeon whose work addressed both abnormal heart rhythms and congenital he...

Pioneer Cardiac Pacemaker Swedish

8.84 Great

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Brian Barratt-Boyes

Brian Barratt-Boyes (1924-2006) was a New Zealand cardiac surgeon who helped establish open-heart surgery at Green Lane...

New Zealand Pioneer Cardiac Valve

8.84 Great

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Mason Sones

F. Mason Sones Jr. (1918-1985) was an American physician and cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic who established select...

American Pioneer Cardiac Coronary

8.78 Great

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Clarence Crafoord

Clarence Crafoord (1899-1984) was a Swedish surgeon who contributed to the emergence of cardiac and thoracic surgery. In...

Pioneer Cardiac Swedish Coarctation

8.76 Great

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Michel Mirowski

Michel Mirowski (1924-1990) was a Polish-born physician who helped develop the implantable cardioverter-defibrillator, a...

Pioneer Cardiac Defibrillator Polish American

8.68 Great

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Robert Jones

Sir Robert Jones was a Welsh orthopedic surgeon whose work helped establish orthopedics as a distinct surgical specialty...

Orthopedic Pioneer British Rehabilitation

8.65 Great

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Richard Lower

Richard Lower was an American cardiac surgeon who worked with Norman Shumway at Stanford University on the experimental...

American Pioneer Cardiac Heart

8.62 Great

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Russell Brock

Russell Brock, later Baron Brock of Wimbledon, was a British surgeon who contributed to the development of modern cardia...

Pioneer Cardiac British Pulmonary

8.45 Great

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Henry Souttar

Henry Souttar was a British surgeon who performed an early operation for mitral stenosis at the London Hospital in 1925....

Pioneer Cardiac Early 20TH Century British

7.86 Good

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John Wallwork

John Wallwork is a British cardiothoracic surgeon closely associated with Papworth Hospital and the development of heart...

Pioneer Cardiac British Transplant

7.76 Good

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Laurence O'Shaughnessy

Laurence O'Shaughnessy was a British surgeon whose experimental work explored ways to improve the blood supply to heart...

Pioneer Cardiac Early 20TH Century British

7.58 Good