Bruce Reitz

{{Short description|American cardiothoracic surgeon}}

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Bruce A. Reitz is an American cardiothoracic surgeon, best known for leading the first combined heart-lung transplantation in 1981 with pioneer heart transplant surgeon Norman Shumway. He obtained an undergraduate degree at Stanford University (B.S. 1966) a medical degree at Yale Medical School (M.D. 1970) and completed an internship at Johns Hopkins Hospital (1971) and residencies and fellowships at Stanford University Hospital (1972 and 1978) the National Institutes of Health (1974). He joined the surgical faculty at Stanford University (1978) then became chief of cardiac surgery at Johns Hopkins University (1982–92) and Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Stanford (1992–2005). In 1995 he conducted another pioneering operation: the first Heartport procedure, using a device that allows minimally invasive coronary bypass and valve operations. Reitz also played a major role in the resident education program at Stanford, which he reorganized and maintained.{{Cite web|url=http://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2016/03/bruce-reitz-recalls-the-worlds-first-heart-lung-transplant.html|title=5 Questions: Bruce Reitz recalls first successful heart-lung transplant|website=News Center|language=en|access-date=30 January 2019}}{{Cite journal|last=Oransky|first=Ivan|date=2006-03-18|title=Norman Shumway|url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(06)68370-0/abstract|journal=The Lancet|language=en|volume=367|issue=9514|pages=896|doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(06)68370-0|issn=0140-6736|pmid=16575948|s2cid=54275865|url-access=subscription}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xtEIeqY8dn8C&q=bruce+reitz+stanford&pg=PA335|title=The Evolution of Cardiac Surgery|last=Shumacker|first=Harris B.|date=1992|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=9780253352217|language=en}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JuERMKJIuKMC&q=bruce+reitz+stanford&pg=PA955|title=Clinical Respiratory Medicine|last1=Albert|first1=Richard K.|last2=Spiro|first2=Stephen G.|last3=Jett|first3=James R.|date=2008|publisher=Elsevier Health Sciences|isbn=9780323048255|language=en}}

Selected publications

  • [https://www.jtcvs.org/article/S0022-5223(10)01445-5/abstract "The first successful combined heart–lung transplantation"], The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, April 2011, Volume 141, Issue 4, pp. 867–869, {{doi|10.1016/j.jtcvs.2010.12.014}}

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