Albert Starr

Albert Starr (born June 1, 1926, in New York, New York)[1] is an American cardiovascular surgeon, inventor of the Starr heart valve. Starr resides and practices in the Portland, Oregon area and is special adviser to OHSU Dean of Medicine Mark Richardson and OHSU President Joseph Robertson (OHSU) at Oregon Health and Science University.[2]

He received his B.A. degree from Columbia College (now Columbia University) in 1946 and his M.D. degree from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1949. He then went on to do his internship at Johns Hopkins Hospital and his residency in general and thoracic surgery at the Bellevue and Presbyterian Hospitals of Columbia University. He was an assistant in surgeon at Columbia University until 1957, when he moved to Oregon—having been enticed, in part, by the Oregon Heart Association's promises to help fund his research and to take him salmon fishing. There he worked for the Crippled Children's Division at the University of Oregon Medical School (now the Oregon Health and Science University). Starr was an instructor in surgery when he met Lowell Edwards in September 1958. Starr has said of this meeting, "He was in his 60s and I was in my 30s, but there was no generation gap between us."

Starr-Edwards mitral valve

Starr helped invent the world's first durable artificial mitral valve[3] and is credited with being a co-inventor of the world's first artificial heart valve in 1960.[4]

Awards
1972: Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement[5]
2007: Lasker Award[6]
2015: Scientific Grand Prize of the Lefoulon-Delalande Fondation

See also

References
  1. Matthews 1998.
  2. Budnick, Nick (July 22, 2011). "Surgeon Albert Starr takes on new role at Oregon Health & Science University, leaving heart program at Providence St. Vincent". Oregon Live. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
  3. Brenneman, Kristina (May 14, 2000). "Starr's landmark valve to get honors in Paris". Portland Business Journal. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
  4. Brian Libby (January 27, 2004). "Plan Aids Diabetic Heart Patients". New York Times. Retrieved August 4, 2012.
  5. "Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement". www.achievement.org. American Academy of Achievement.
  6. Lawrence K. Altman (September 16, 2007). "4 Winners of Lasker Medical Prize". New York Times. Retrieved August 4, 2012.

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