Clarence Walton Lillehei was flying high at the midpoint of the past century. The brash medical student had earned a Bronze Star in Europe with the Army Medical Corps during World War II. The son of a ...

Dr. Vincent L. Gott was part of an innovative group of doctors who trained with Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, considered to be the father of open-heart surgery. When Lillehei performed the first open-heart ...

WHEN AN old man prepares for open-heart surgery, he maintains a confident demeanor and so does his good wife. He has an excellent surgeon and the procedure has been around since he was a teenager, ...

Lillehei, a pioneer who created many innovative open-heart surgery techniques during the 1950s, died Monday of cancer in St. Paul, Minn. He was 80. Lillehei was a surgery professor at the University ...

A University graduate recently returned to the Medical School to assume a high-ranking position within the department. Dr. Daniel J. Garry is the new director of the Lillehei Heart Institute and ...

The grey-gowned figure in charge looks like a visitor from another planet. Between skull cap and mask, his head sprouts a startling pair of binocular spectacles. His hands move with confident ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This artificial heart valve was ...

"G. Wayne Miller has dramatically and meticulously reconstructed an amazing true story: how a group of renegade Minnesota surgeons, led by Dr. Walt Lillehei, made medical history by becoming the first ...

Dr. Vincent L. Gott was part of an innovative group of doctors who trained with Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, considered to be the father of open-heart surgery. When Lillehei performed the first open-heart ...