On this day in 1968, Doctors Norman Shumway and Randall B. Griepp, MD, performed the first heart transplant in the U.S.

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On this day in 1968, Doctors Norman Shumway and Randall B. Griepp, MD ’67, of the Stanford University School of Medicine, performed the first successful human heart transplant in the U.S.

 

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