"Cardiovascular Surgeon" Michael DeBakey Signed TLS Todd Mueller COA

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Up for auction "Cardiovascular Surgeon" Michael DeBakey Signed TLS dated 1981.
This item is certified authentic by Todd Mueller and comes with their Certificate of Authenticity.
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Michael Ellis DeBakey
(7 September 1908 – 11 July 2008) was a Lebanese-American
cardiovascular surgeon
, scientist, and medical educator, who became the chancellor emeritus of
Baylor College of Medicine
in
Houston
,
Texas
, director of The Methodist DeBakey Heart & Vascular Center, and senior attending surgeon of
The Methodist Hospital
in Houston, with a career spanning 75 years. Born to Lebanese Christian immigrants, DeBakey was inspired towards a career in medicine by the physicians he met at his father's drug store and he simultaneously learned sewing skills from his mother. He subsequently attended
Tulane University
for his premedical course and
Tulane University School of Medicine
to study medicine, where he developed a version of the
roller pump
, which he initially used to
transfuse blood
directly from person to person and which later became a component of the
heart–lung machine
. Following early surgical training at
Charity Hospital
, he was encouraged to complete his surgical fellowships in Europe, before returning to Tulane University in 1937. During the
Second World War
, he helped develop the
Mobile Army Surgical Hospital
(MASH) units and later helped establish the Veteran's Administration Medical Center Research System. DeBakey's surgical innovations included
coronary bypass operations
,
carotid endarterectomy
,
artificial hearts
and
ventricular assist devices
. He used
Dacron
grafts to replace or repair blood vessels and pioneered surgical repairs of
aortic aneurysms
, an operation he himself had performed on him at the age of 97. DeBakey received a number of awards in his lifetime including the
Presidential Medal of Freedom
, the
National Medal of Science
and the
Congressional Gold Medal
. In addition, a number of institutions bear his name.