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Norman Shumway

American surgeon (1923-2006) · United States · On the map · Doctors · Died at 83

Norman Edward Shumway 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.

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2006Died10 February 20062001King Faisal International Prize in MedicineAward1994Lister MedalAward1987AMA Scientific Achievement AwardAward1980Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of SurgeonsAward1976Cameron Prize of the University of EdinburghAward1972Honorary Doctorate of the Henri Poincaré UniversityAward1923Born9 February 1923

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