Stephen Westaby

Professor Stephen Westaby FRCS (born 27 July 1948) is a British heart surgeon at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, England.^[1]

Career

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 electrical heart pump in the world.^[2][3]

His memoir of his career as a heart surgeon, Open Heart: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table, was published in 2017 by HarperCollins.^[4] The book was shortlisted for the 2017 Costa Book Awards Biography Award^[5] and won the 2017 BMA president's choice award.^[6] A second memoir, The Knife's Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon, was published by HarperCollins in 2019.^[7]

References

1. "Heart surgeon does pioneering op" BBC. Retrieved 3 December 2012.
2. Richmond, Caroline (18 December 2007). "Peter Houghton". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 4 January 2008.
3. "Javic 2000: The First Lifetime-Use Patient". Jarvik Heart, Inc. Archived from the original on 21 November 2010. Retrieved 4 January 2008.
4. Roberts, Yvonne (12 February 2017). "Book of the Day: Fragile Lives by Stephen Westaby". The Guardian. Retrieved 23 June 2017.
5. "Shortlist, 2017 Costa First Novel Award" (PDF). Retrieved 27 November 2018.
6. "Outstanding medical books from around the world recognised at this year's prestigious BMA Medical Book Awards". Retrieved 27 November 2018.
7. Hammond, Phil (5 April 2019). "The Knife's Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon by Stephen Westaby review — life at the sharp end of surgery". The Times. Retrieved 15 May 2020.