(August 19, 1919 - April 19, 2012) was an American Doctor of Medicine and a prominent cardiologist who was the first surgeon to implant an artificial aortic valve.
He was the longtime Chairman of the Department of Surgery at the University of Virginia and past president of the American College of Surgeons.
He served in the United States Army for a brief time in 1946 before returning home to his father in Dillon, SC who was extremely ill.
In 1949, he was recruited to the new UCLA School of Medicine, where he served as the chief of cardiovascular surgery.
[5] He married Hildwin Headley, a nurse at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, MD, in 1946.