Stephen Westaby

Professor Stephen Westaby is a heart surgeon at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England. 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.^[1]^[2]

References

^ Richmond, Caroline (18 December 2007). "Peter Houghton". London: The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2229000,00.html. Retrieved 4 January 2008.
^ "Javic 2000: The First Lifetime-Use Patient". Jarvik Heart, Inc. http://www.jarvikheart.com/basic.asp?id=63. Retrieved 4 January 2008.

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