Stephen Westaby
British cardiac surgeon
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Professor Stephen Westaby FRCS (born 27 July 1948) is a renowned retired English heart surgeon from Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire who worked at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England.[1]
Career
Westaby and his team performed Peter Houghton's heart operation in June 2000, implanting a Jarvik 7 artificial left ventricular assist device, a turbine pump. Peter Houghton (1938–2007) became the longest living person with an electrical artificial heart pump in the world.[2][3]
His memoir of his career as a heart surgeon, Open Heart: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table, was published in 2017 by HarperCollins.[4] The book was shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Book Awards Biography Award[5] and won the 2017 BMA president's choice award.[6] A second memoir, The Knife's Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon, was published by HarperCollins in 2019.[7]
