Michael Ellis DeBakey and/or Michael Ellis De Bakey (* 7 September 1908 in Lake Charles, Louis IANA) is an US-American heart surgeon; it perfected among other things the heart lung machine and transplantierte 1966 the first art heart. The way of writing of its surname is even in the publications written by him non-uniform, the institutions designated after it uses the way of writing DeBakey.

DeBakey is the son of Lebanese Christians, who were immigriert into the USA. It completed its medical training to the Tulane University in new Orleans. In the Second World War DeBakey participated as a Freiwilliger and became a director of the Surgical Consultants' division of the United States Army. In its military time he suggested among other things the mechanism the mobiles Army Surgical hospital (M.A.S.H.), which admits later by the novel and film of the same name became.

1969 became DeBakey director of the Baylor college OF Medicine, likewise 1969 kept it the Presidential Medal OF Freedom, 1987 the Medal OF Science national.

1996 led DeBakey the international operation team, which accomplished the bypass operation of the president at that time of the USSR, Boris Yel'tsin.

Apart from a classification for Aortendissektionen one of it developed container clamp, the DeBakey High School for for Health Professions and the Michael E carry. DeBakey Veteran's Affairs hospital of Texas Medical center in Houston its name.

On 10 February 2006 DeBakey was taken up because of a Aortenaneurysmas in the Houston's Methodist hospital.

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• DeBakey department OF Surgery at the Baylor college OF Medicine (English)

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