Forest Dewey Dodrill

January 26, 1902 (age 95)

Webster Springs, West Virginia

After receiving a bachelor"s degree from West Virginia University in 1925, he attended Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1930. Dodrill was an intern and resident at Harper Hospital in Detroit where he became a staff surgeon. He did a thoracic surgical residency at the University of Michigan in the early 1940s, receiving a Master of Surgery degree from in 1942. On July 3, 1952 Dodrill completed the first successful open heart surgery on the left ventricle of Henry Opitek. He used a machine developed by himself and researchers at General Motors, the Dodrill-GMR, considered to be the first operational mechanical heart used while performing open heart surgery.

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Harvard Medical School. University of Michigan.

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After receiving a bachelor"s degree from West Virginia University in 1925, he attended Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1930. Dodrill was an intern and resident at Harper Hospital in Detroit where he became a staff surgeon. He did a thoracic surgical residency at the University of Michigan in the early 1940s, receiving a Master of Surgery degree from in 1942.

On July 3, 1952 Dodrill completed the first successful open heart surgery on the left ventricle of Henry Opitek.

He used a machine developed by himself and researchers at General Motors, the Dodrill-GMR, considered to be the first operational mechanical heart used while performing open heart surgery.

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