Frank Leven Albert Gerbode, popularly known as Frank Gerbode, (February 3, 1907 – December 6, 1984) was an American cardiovascular surgeon[1] and founder of the Medical Research Institute and the Heart Research Institute at Pacific Medical Center.
From 1936 to 1937, he studied pathology under Germany's leading pathologist Max Borst in Munich.
In 1954, he performed "the first clinical open heart operation west of the Mississippi, when he corrected an atrial septal defect using his newly designed heart-lung machine.
"[4] In 1958 he was the chief surgeon performing the operation depicted in a 1958 open heart surgery that was televised live on Channel 5 (KPIX) in San Francisco.
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