• Obituaries of Notable People in the Medicine Category



  • Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, 90 (1918 - 2008)

    Dr. Adrian  Kantrowitz

    DETROIT - Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz, a cardiac surgeon who performed the nation's first human heart transplant and who also developed lifesaving medical implants, has died. He was 90. Kantrowitz died Friday in Ann Arbor of complications from heart failure, said his wife, Jean Kantrowitz. In 1967, Kantrowitz performed the first human heart transplant in the United States, three days after the...

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  • Florence Wald, 91 (1917 - 2008)

    Florence  Wald

    Hartford, Conn. - Florence Wald, a former Yale nursing dean whose interest in compassionate care led her to launch the first U.S. hospice program, has died. She was 91. Her daughter, Shari Vogler, said Saturday that Wald died Nov. 8 of natural causes at her Branford home. A hospice volunteer was by her side to the end, Vogler said. Wald was dean of the Yale University School of...

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  • Dr. Ronald Davis (2008)

    Dr. Ronald  Davis

    CHICAGO - Dr. Ronald Davis, a longtime public health and anti-tobacco advocate who served as president of the American Medical Association, died Thursday. He was 52. Davis died at his home near East Lansing, Mich., the AMA said. He had pancreatic cancer. During a speech at the AMA's annual meeting in Chicago in June, Davis urged his fellow doctors to raise awareness about pancreatic...

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  • Dr. Thomas H. Weller, 93 (1915 - 2008)

    Dr. Thomas H. Weller

    BOSTON - Dr. Thomas H. Weller, a Harvard professor whose research on the polio virus earned him and two others a Nobel prize in 1954, has died. He was 93. Weller died in his sleep Saturday at his home in Needham, his son said. He and two Children's Hospital colleagues, John F. Enders and Frederick C. Robbins, shared the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their discovery of a way to grow the...

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  • Dr. Charles F. Whitten, 86 (1922 - 2008)

    Dr. Charles F. Whitten

    DETROIT - Dr. Charles F. Whitten, a physician, professor and specialist in sickle cell disease, died Aug. 14. He was 86. Whitten died of complications from multiple myeloma at his home in Detroit, the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America said. Born in Wilmington, Del., Whitten earned a degree in zoology from the University of Pennsylvania and completed his medical degree at Meharry...

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