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Ann Thorac Surg 2005;79:S2257-S2259
© 2005 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Supplement

Lillehei Heart Institute Lifetime Achievement Awards

R. Morton Bolman, III, MD*

C. Walton and Richard C. Lillehei Professor and Chief, Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Lillehei Heart Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Accepted for publication February 4, 2005.

* Address reprint requests to Ms Dee McManus, Lillehei Heart Institute, University of Minnesota, MMC #195, Minneapolis, MN55455 (E-mail: d-mcma@umn.edu).

Presented at the 4th Annual Lillehei Heart Institute Symposium Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Open-Heart Surgery by Cross Circulation, Minneapolis, MN, Oct 19–20, 2004.

The first 300 words of the full text of this article appear below.


   Introduction
 
The Lillehei Heart Institute honored 11 individuals who have made seminal contributions to the development of the field of heart surgery during the 50th Anniversary of Open-Heart Surgery by Cross Circulation celebrated at the University of Minnesota on October 19th and 20, 2004. During the past 50 years, so many people have contributed to the remarkable progress in open-heart surgery, and the Lillehei Heart Institute presented Lifetime Achievement Awards to these 11 individuals to signify a special place in this pantheon of research and discovery.

Each of these people is so accomplished that books could be written about them, but this discussion will only be able to touch on highlights of each individual’s life.


   Earl Bakken
 

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The first recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award is a Minnesotan who not only makes a difference in the health of 2.5 million people annually who receive pacemakers, but who also strives to improve the lives and health of those in the Hawaiian community where he now lives. Earl Bakken trained as an electrical engineer at the University of Minnesota—but what he truly is, is a visionary. With his brother-in-law in 1949, Mr Bakken founded Medtronic—a company that only really took off after Mr Bakken established a connection with C. Walton Lillehei in October 1957. Walt asked him to make a better pacemaker than the alternating current pacemakers then in use. Within 4 weeks, Bakken produced a small, self-contained, transistorized, battery-powered pacemaker that could be taped to the patient’s chest. It was tested, and the very next day, the pacemaker was used in the hospital on the first patient. That product has been continually improved, and today Medtronic is a leader in the medical technology field and the world’s largest manufacturer of cardiac pacemakers.


   Aldo R. Castañeda
 

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Aldo Castaneda’s fellowship in surgery at the University of Minnesota was the . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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