Cardiac, Vascular and Transplant Surgeons

He became a transplant surgeon after training in surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania

trained as a cardiothoracic transplant surgeon

recognized for transplantation and all types of pediatric and infant-open heart surgeries

A pioneer in human heart transplantation in Poland

known for his inventions of several surgical procedures for treating heart defects

whose team performed the world's second heart transplant attempt

was a French vascular surgeon and physiologist.

Kirschner performed the first successful pulmonary artery embolectomy

Indian cardiac surgeon

who pioneered open-heart surgery, as well as numerous techniques, equipment and prostheses for cardiothoracic surgery

board certified as a cardiovascular surgeon, Japan Surgical Society, 1989

best known for performing Europe's first heart transplant at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital in 1968

he decided to focus on thoracic surgery, rather than gastrointestinal surgery as he had initially intended

is an Italian transplant surgeon

was an Irish heart surgeon, activist

known for his role in developing the artificial pacemaker and the use of hypothermia in open heart surgery

first surgeon to perform a successful heart surgery

He is remembered as the inventor of the arterial switch operation

He was the creator of the Rastelli procedure.

is a Polish transplant surgeon and scientist

to perform the first kidney transplant in the United Kingdom

He specialises in gastrointestinal, hepatobiliary and transplant surgery

He was an innovator in heart surgery

is a retired cardiothoracic surgeon and politician

Broelsch pioneered the liver transplant surgery

tetralogy of Fallot

first to successfully perform a cardiac surgery

was a Swedish cardiovascular surgeon, best known for performing the first successful repair of aortic coarctation

is a French cardiac surgeon specializing in mitral valve repair, heart transplantation, and cardiac assist devices

Åke Senning (14 December 1915-21 July 2000) was a Swedish cardiac surgeon who worked at University Hospital of Zürich from 1961 until his retirement in 1985.

Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922-2 September 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant operation.

Denton Arthur Cooley (August 22, 1920, November 18, 2016) was an American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart.

John Heysham Gibbon (September 29, 1903, February 5, 1973) was an American surgeon best known for inventing the heart-lung machine and performing subsequent open-heart surgeries which revolutionized heart surgery in the twentieth century.

Murray is known as the "father of transplantation" for major milestones in the field of transplantation, including performing the first successful human kidney transplant, defining brain death, organizing the first international conference on human kidney transplants, and founding the National Kidney Registry, the forerunner of the current United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS).

Juan Carlos Parodi (Buenos Aires, August 16, 1942) is an Argentinian vascular surgeon who introduced the minimally invasive endovascular aneurysm repair (EVAR) to the world and performed the first successful endovascular repair of an abdominal aortic aneurysm on 7 September 1990 in Buenos Aires.

Michael Ellis DeBakey (September 7, 1908, July 11, 2008) was an American surgeon general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas.

Norman Edward Shumway (February 9, 1923, February 10, 2006) was a pioneer of heart surgery at Stanford University. He was the 67th president of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the first to perform an adult human to human heart transplantation in the United States.

René Gerónimo Favaloro (July 12, 1923, July 29, 2000) was an Argentine cardiac surgeon and educator best known for his pioneering work on coronary artery bypass surgery using the great saphenous vein.

Vasilii Ivanovich Kolesov (Russian: Василий Иванович Колесов; 24 September 1904-2 August 1992) was one of the pioneers of global cardiac surgery. He was the first to perform successful internal coronary artery bypass surgery using mammary artery-coronary artery anastomosis in 1964.