Taut, elegantly written, and ever-attentive to the patients for whom he was the last best chance, Close to the Sun is an adventurous, riveting account based on the experience of over 40,000 heart surgeries, where everything was on the line every moment in the O.R. Learn more…
Stuart Jamieson’s story is the story of four decades of advances in heart surgery.
Stuart Jamieson’s research at Stanford University in the late 1970s revolutionized heart transplantation through the development of the anti-rejection drug cyclosporin, which also made lung transplantation possible. Named a “Living Legend” by the World Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, he is the author of two books and more than 500 scientific papers. Learn more…
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La Jolla Light
HEART’S IN HIS WORK: UCSD transplant surgeon Stuart Jamieson pens memoir / READ THE ARTICLE
International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
Pioneer Lecture / VIEW THE LECTURE
Author Reading
Warwicks in La Jolla author event March 12