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J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2002;123:1-2
© 2002 The American Association for Thoracic Surgery

In Memoriam

Christiaan Neethling Barnard (1922-2001)

Malek G. Massad, MD

12/1/121042doi:10.1067/mtc.2002.121042

Christiaan Neethling Barnard, who made medical history and was thrust into the international limelight almost instantly in 1967 after performing the first human heart transplant, died on September 2, 2001, in his hotel room while vacationing at the coastal resort of Paphos, Cyprus.

Barnard was born in the small town of Beaufort West on South Africa's Great Karroo plateau on November 8, 1922. His father, Adam Hendrik Barnard, was a Dutch Reformed minister. His mother, the former Maria Elizabeth de Sewart, played the church organ. Barnard was one of five boys. One of his brothers, Abraham, died at the age of 5 years of heart disease. This may have been the reason for Barnard's future walk in life. The family was by no means rich and the young Christiaan Barnard had a modest upbringing. He matriculated from the Beaufort West High School in 1940, and in 1946 he completed his bachelor of medicine and bachelor of surgery degrees (MB, ChB) at the University of Cape Town. Barnard served his internship at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town. In 1948, he married Aletta Louw and moved to the town of Ceres, in the Western Cape, where he served as a family physician. The Barnards had two children, Andre, who later committed suicide . . . [Full Text of this Article]






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