Funeral services for Dr. C. Walton Lillehei, a renowned University faculty member touted by many as “the father of open-heart surgery,” will be held at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis this morning.

On September 2, 1952, two University of Minnesota surgeons, Dr. Walton Lillehei and Dr. John Lewis, attempted the first open heart surgery on a five-year-old girl who had been born with a hole in ...

Better, said Dr. Lillehei, to attach one electrode to the heart at the time of operation, lead the wire out through the chest incision (the second electrode can still be placed just under the skin ...