Daniel Hale Williams.
dr.k.m cherian
I believe it was Dr. KM Cherian.
Dr. John Carter Callaghan performed the first successful open heart surgery in Canada at the University of Alberta hospital in 1956.
Dr. John Carter Callaghan performed the first successful open heart surgery in Canada at the University of Alberta hospital in 1956.
Christiaan Neethling Barnard
Dr. Christian Bernard
The then South Africa dwelling surgeon devised and performed the first successful heart transplant.
it was joe flaminstainion johnonsion
The first heart transplant was performed in December 1967, on Louis Washkansky by surgeon Dr. Christian Barnard, at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Capetown, South Africa.
The most famous heart surgeon is probably South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard who performed the first successful human heart transplant in December of 1967.
The first successful open heart surgery was performed on July 9, 1893, when Dr. Daniel Hale Williams opened the chest of a man and repaired the pericardium (sac surrounding the heart) which had been damaged by a knife stabbing. The patient recovered after 51 days and lived for another 50 years.
The first lung transplant was attempted by Dr. Hardy at the University of Mississippi in 1964. This was not a successful procedure. The first long-term success with single lung transplantation was performed by the team at the University of Toronto Thoracic Surgery Group in Toronto, Canada (at the Toronto General Hospital) in 1983. The Toronto group also performed the first successful double lung transplant in 1986. Prior to that, the Stanford University group performed the first successful heart-lung transplant.