Stephen Westaby

Stephen Westaby

Professor Stephen Westaby is a heart surgeon at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England. He won the award of Midlander of the Year in 2002.

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 electric heart pump in the world. [cite web |url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2229000,00.html |publisher = The Guardian |title = Peter Houghton |first = Caroline |last = Richmond| accessdaymonth = 4 January |accessyear = 2008] [cite web |url = http://www.jarvikheart.com/basic.asp?id=63 |title = Javic 2000: The First Lifetime-Use Patient| publisher = Jarvik Heart, Inc| accessdaymonth = 4 January |accessyear = 2008]

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