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 ...

After an intensive search, the University’s School of Nursing named professor Joanne Disch to a newly created position in honor of Katherine R. and C. Walton Lillehei. Disch is now the Lillehei ...

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 ...

One of the Minnesota physicians, Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, and colleagues worked out a technique called cross-circulation. Blood would be pumped between a young patient and an adult, usually a parent, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past century, heart operations that once were unthinkable have become commonplace. Thousands of times a day, surgeons graft arteries, fix structural defects or transplant entire hearts.