Dennis, Clarence

Dennis, Clarence
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      American surgeon (b. June 16, 1909, St. Paul, Minn.—d. July 11, 2005, St. Paul), performed on April 5, 1951, the world's first open-heart surgery carried out with the use of a heart-lung machine that he had developed at the University of Minnesota. Though the patient died, his pioneering work revolutionized the field of cardiovascular surgery. Dennis joined the staff of the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn in 1951 and remained there for 20 years. He served (1972–74) as director of technological applications at the National Heart and Lung Institute in Bethesda, Md. Dennis also developed a number of surgical instruments.

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