Shumway receives Lifetime Achievement Award
DR. NORMAN SHUMWAY, PROFESSOR emeritus of cardiothoracic surgery, has been selected to receive the first Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation. Shumway accepted the award last week at the society's annual meeting, in Chicago.
Shumway, a Stanford faculty member
since 1958, pioneered the techniques for heart transplantation and,
in 1968, performed the nation's first heart transplant, which was
the second in the world. His team went on to refine the procedure
and helped make heart transplantation routine. Among their
improvements are new ways of preventing rejection of the transplant
after surgery and better methods for keeping donated hearts fresh.
Shumway chaired the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery from 1974
to 1992.