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Blalock, Alfred

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Born: 1899 AD
Died: 1964 AD, at 65 years of age.

Nationality: American
Categories: Surgeon

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1899 - Born in Culloden, Georgia on the 5th of April.

 

1913 - Entered Georgia Military Academy, a preparatory school for the University of Georgia.

 

1918 - Graduated from the University of Georgia with an A.B. at the age of 19.

 

1922 - Blalock earned his medical degree at Johns Hopkins.

 

1925 - With Harrison at Vanderbilt University in Nashville to serve as first chief resident in surgery.

 

1927 - Published his first paper on shock

 

1938 - He tried to produce pulmonary hypertension in experiments joining the left subclavian artery to the left pulmonary artery.

 

1941 - Offered Chief of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital.

 

Collaborator with Vivien Thomas.

 

 






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