Black Pioneer in Cardiac Surgery

Date:1944​

Who: Vivien Thomas​

Where: John Hopkins, Baltimore, Maryland​

What: Vivien Thomas was an American Laboratory Supervisor who developed a procedure to treat cyanotic heart disease. His contributions helped treat a potentially fatal congenital cardiac abnormality​

Learn more:Just One More | Vivien Thomas: Remembering a Pioneering Legend - American College of Cardiology (acc.org)​

https://www.msm.edu/Prospective_Students/admissions/PipelinePrograms/VivienThomas/commhealth_trainingprograms_vivien_bio.php​

Soylu, E., Athanasiou, T., & Jarral, O. A. (2017). Vivien Theodore Thomas (1910–1985): An African-American laboratory technician who went on to become an innovator in cardiac surgery. Journal of medical biography, 25(2), 106-113.​

HEIMBECKER, R., THOMAS, V., & BLALOCK, A. (1951). Experimental reversal of capillary blood flow. Circulation, 4(1), 116-119.​

Kay, J. H., & THOMAS, V. (1954). Experimental production of pulmonary insufficiency: physiological and pathological study. AMA Archives of Surgery, 69(5), 646-650.​