Renowned Cardiovascular Surgeon Michael DeBakey Hand Signed TLS Dated 1981

  

(7 September 1908 - 11 July 2008). Was a Lebanese-American cardiovascular surgeon, scientist, and. Medical educator, who became the chancellor emeritus of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Director of The Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, and senior. Attending surgeon of The Methodist Hospital in Houston, with a.

Born to Lebanese Christian immigrants, DeBakey was. Inspired towards a career in medicine by the physicians he met at his father's.

Drug store and he simultaneously learned sewing skills from his mother. Subsequently attended Tulane University for his premedical course and. Tulane University School of Medicine. To study medicine, where he developed a version of the roller pump.

Which he initially used to transfuse. Blood directly from person to person and which later became a.

Component of the heart-lung machine. Training at Charity Hospital, he was. Encouraged to complete his surgical fellowships in Europe, before returning to. War, he helped develop the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) units. And later helped establish the Veteran's Administration Medical Center Research.

DeBakey's surgical innovations included coronary. Bypass operations, carotid endarterectomy, artificial. Hearts and ventricular assist devices. Grafts to replace or repair blood vessels and pioneered surgical repairs of aortic.

Aneurysms, an operation he himself had performed on him at the age. DeBakey received a number of awards in his lifetime including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the National Medal of Science and the Congressional Gold Medal.

Number of institutions bear his name.