Professor Stephen Westaby FRCS (born 27 July 1948) is a British heart surgeon at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England.[1]
Career
editWestaby 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 electrical heart pump in the world.[2][3]
His memoir of his career as a heart surgeon, Open Heart: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table, was published in 2017 by HarperCollins.[4] The book was shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Book Awards Biography Award[5] and won the 2017 BMA president's choice award.[6] A second memoir, The Knife's Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon, was published by HarperCollins in 2019.[7]
References
edit- ^ "Heart surgeon does pioneering op" BBC. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
- ^ Richmond, Caroline (18 December 2007). "Peter Houghton". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 4 January 2008.
- ^ "Javic 2000: The First Lifetime-Use Patient". Jarvik Heart, Inc. Archived from the original on 21 November 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2008.
- ^ Roberts, Yvonne (12 February 2017). "Book of the Day: Fragile Lives by Stephen Westaby". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
- ^ "Shortlist, 2017 Costa First Novel Award" (PDF). Retrieved 27 November 2018.
- ^ "Outstanding medical books from around the world recognised at this year's prestigious BMA Medical Book Awards". Retrieved 27 November 2018.
- ^ Hammond, Phil (5 April 2019). "The Knife's Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon by Stephen Westaby review — life at the sharp end of surgery". The Times. Retrieved 15 May 2020.
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