SHUMWAY, NORMAN E.

born Feb. 9, 1923, Kalamazoo, Mich., U.S. in full Norman Edward Shumway American surgeon and pioneer in cardiac transplantation who, on Jan. 6, 1968, at the Stanford Medical Center, Stanford, Calif., performed the first adult heart transplant in the United States. The 54-year-old recipient, whose heart had been damaged by virus infection, survived 15 days following surgery. Shumway's surgical team subsequently performed many other heart-transplant operations. Shumway's other major achievements included such open-heart surgery as the transplantation of valves. Shumway obtained an M.D. degree from Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. (1949), and a Ph.D. degree in surgery from the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1956), where he studied under Owen Harding Wangensteen and Clarence Walton Lillehei, both distinguished innovators in surgery. In 1958 Shumway joined the faculty of the Stanford University School of Medicine. He became chairman of the department of cardiovascular surgery at the Stanford University Medical Center in 1974.