Stephen Westaby

Professor Stephen Westaby is a British heart surgeon at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England.^[1] He won the award of Midlander of the Year in 2002.

Westaby and his team performed Peter Houghton's heart operation in June 2000, implanting a Jarvik 7 artificial left ventricular assist device, a turbine pump. Peter Houghton (1938–2007) became the longest living person with an electric heart pump in the world.^[2]^[3]

References

^ "Heart surgeon does pioneering op" BBC. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
^ Richmond, Caroline (18 December 2007). "Peter Houghton". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 4 January 2008.
^ "Javic 2000: The First Lifetime-Use Patient". Jarvik Heart, Inc. Retrieved 4 January 2008.

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[1] "Heart surgeon does pioneering op" BBC. Retrieved 3 December 2012.

[2] Richmond, Caroline (18 December 2007). "Peter Houghton". London: The Guardian. Retrieved 4 January 2008.

[3] "Javic 2000: The First Lifetime-Use Patient". Jarvik Heart, Inc. Retrieved 4 January 2008.

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