John Webster Kirklin (April 5, 1917-April 21, 2004) was born in Muncie, Indiana, United States. After graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1942 he made several important contributions to heart surgery while practicing at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota. He is noted especially for refining the heart-lung machine, originally developed by John Gibbon, to the point that heart surgeries could be performed with a high degree of success.

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  • John Webster Kirklin (April 5, 1917-April 21, 2004) was born in Muncie, Indiana, United States. After graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1942 he made several important contributions to heart surgery while practicing at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota. He is noted especially for refining the heart-lung machine, originally developed by John Gibbon, to the point that heart surgeries could be performed with a high degree of success. Kirklin was responsible for bringing the heart-lung machine into routine use in heart surgery. After years as the Chair of the Department of Surgery at the Mayo Clinic, he accepted the same position at the University of Alabama School of Medicine in 1966. He built the school and UAB Hospital system into one of the leaders in the health care industry. He is buried in Birmingham's Elmwood Cemetery.
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  • John Webster Kirklin (April 5, 1917-April 21, 2004) was born in Muncie, Indiana, United States. After graduating from Harvard Medical School in 1942 he made several important contributions to heart surgery while practicing at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota. He is noted especially for refining the heart-lung machine, originally developed by John Gibbon, to the point that heart surgeries could be performed with a high degree of success.
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  • John W. Kirklin
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