Edward Stinson (surgeon)
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Edward B. Stinson (born 1938) is an American retired cardiothoracic surgeon living in Los Altos, United States, who assisted Norman Shumway in America's first adult human-to-human heart transplantation on 6 January 1968 at Stanford University.
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Born | 1938 |
Nationality | American |
Education | Stanford University |
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Profession | Cardiothoracic surgeon |
Field | Heart transplant |
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For over twenty years, Stinson was the principal investigator for the National Institutes of Health programme project in heart transplantation at Stanford.
In 1981, he was a founding member of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) and chaired their first international programme.