Norman Shumway
Norman Edward Shumway (born February 9, 1923 in Kalamazoo , Michigan , † February 10, 2006 in Palo Alto , California ) was an American cardiologist and surgeon. He was a pioneer in modern heart transplantation .
Shumway studied at the University of Michigan and after military service in World War II at Baylor University (medical training in the US Army) and Vanderbilt University , where he graduated (MD) in 1949. He then received his specialist training as a surgeon ( residency ) at the University of Minnesota , where he received his doctorate in surgery in 1956. From 1958 he taught surgery at Stanford Hospital at Stanford University in San Francisco and (after the clinic had moved) Palo Alto. In 1965 he became director of the cardio and thoracic surgery department at Stanford University. In 1993 he retired.
Shumway was the second US doctor to perform a heart transplant in the US after Adrian Kantrowitz (whose patient only survived six hours). He performed a transplant on January 6, 1968, around a month after Christiaan Barnard's first heart transplant in South Africa. The patient, fifty-four-year-old steel worker Mike Kasperak, who had severe virus-related myocarditis ten years earlier and was admitted to the clinic with a poor prognosis, survived only 15 days and died after a series of complications. Barnard, who had been a guest at Shumway's Stanford Clinic, got little before him, using techniques developed by Shumway, who had been performing experimental heart transplants on dogs since 1956. In Stanford he worked closely with Richard Lower . Shumway also played a leading role in the US introduction of ciclosporin (first used in 1978 by Roy Calne as part of a transplant) and in the development of immunosuppressive drugs in general. Shumway also conducted research into the surgical treatment of congenital heart defects, aneurysms and heart valve diseases.
Shumway died of complications from lung cancer.
In 1994 he received the Lister Medal . He received the first ever Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. In 2001 he received the König-Faisal Prize for Medicine with Thomas E. Starzl and Roy Calne .
Shumway had four children from a (divorced) marriage to Mary Lou Stuurmans. His daughter, Sara J. Shumway, became assistant director of heart and lung transplantation at the University of Minnesota. With her he published the book Thoracic transplantation (Blackwell Scientific) in 1995.
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- ↑ Because of his work and because he was a heavy smoker, his lung function was restricted. The liver and kidneys were damaged by lack of oxygen during the operation. Time Magazine, January 19, 1968
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Shumway, Norman |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shumway, Norman Edward (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cardiologist and surgeon |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kalamazoo , Michigan |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 10, 2006 |
| Place of death | Palo Alto , California |