Richard Savington Crampton is a professor emeritus of cardiology at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
[2][3] Crampton worked under UVA's cardiology chief [[Julian R Beckwith] in the 1970s.
Crampton had brought with him an idea for a "mobile coronary care unit" that brought a nurse or doctor, resuscitation equipment, and drugs to the scene of a medical emergency by ambulance.
He was the on-call cardiologist who treated former President Lyndon B. Johnson when he suffered a heart attack in 1972 while visiting family in Charlottesville, VA.[1] His mobile coronary care unit received media attention after this early high-profile success story.
[3] UVA has awarded the "Richard Savington Crampton Visiting Lectureship in Cardiovascular Medicine" since 2000.