Pierre Grondin
Pierre Rene Grondin, was a Canadian cardiac surgeon who was one of the first doctors to perform a successful heart transplant. He brought many innovations to the Montreal Heart Institute after his post-graduate training with pioneers Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley in Houston, Texas. He was one of a select few heart surgeons worldwide who participated in the development of open-heart surgery using the heart-lung machine in the early 1960s. He performed the first successful heart transplantation in Canada at the Montreal Heart Institute in May 1968. Pierre Grondin, Canadian surgeon and academic (d. 2006)
18 August 1925
Born on the same birth date (18 August 1925): Anis Mansour • Brian Aldiss
Born on the same birth day (18 August): Adam Makowicz • Alfred Wallis • Bob Kennedy • Bramwell Tillsley • Brian Aldiss • Christian Slater • Fat Lever • Huw Edwards • Kelly Willard • Libert H. Boeynaems • Lorenzo Pucci • Marshall Field • Meriwether Lewis • Nicole Krauss • Richard Harmon • Robert Huth • Ruth Norman • Ryan O'Hara
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