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Ann Thorac Surg 2001;71:S6-S7
© 2001 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Nina Starr Braunwald: some reflections on the first woman heart surgeon

Eugene Braunwald, MDa,b

a Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
b Partners HealthCare System, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Address reprint requests to Dr Braunwald, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, 75 Francis St, Boston, MA 02116-6195

Presented at the Women in Thoracic Surgery Symposium, Thirty-sixth Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Fort Lauderdale, FL, Jan 31, 2000.

Nina Starr Braunwald was born in New York City in 1928 and died in Weston, MA, in 1992. She received both her baccalaureate and MD degrees from New York University. From 1952 to 1955 she was among the very first women to train in general surgery at New York’s Bellevue Hospital. She completed her training in general surgery at Georgetown University Hospital and then joined the staff of the National Heart Institute. In 1965 she was named Deputy Chief of the Clinic of Surgery at the Institute. In 1968 she joined the Department of Surgery at the new University of California, San Diego School of Medicine (UCSD), where she established the program in cardiovascular surgery. In 1972 Nina Braunwald joined the faculty at Harvard Medical School and held appointments in the Cardiothoracic Surgical Divisions of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital, and the West Roxbury Veterans Administration Hospital (Fig 1).



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  		Fig 1. Nina Starr Braunwald.

 
Doctor Braunwald’s major research interest focused on artificial heart valves. She developed a flexible polyurethane mitral valve with Teflon chordae tendinea that she implanted into dogs. In 1960, at the age of 32, she led the operative team that implanted this artificial mitral valve, which she personally designed and fabricated, into a human. The patient . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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