Albert Starr (born June 1, 1926, in

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) is an American cardiovascular surgeon,

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of the Starr

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. Starr resides and practices in the

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area and is special adviser to OHSU Dean of Medicine Mark Richardson and OHSU President

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. He received his B.A. degree from

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(now Columbia University) in 1946 and his

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degree from Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1949. He then went on to do his

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and his residency in

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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

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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

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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 and is credited with being a co-inventor of the world's first artificial heart valve in 1960.

Awards

:1972: Golden Plate Award of the

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:2007:

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:2015: Scientific Grand Prize of the Lefoulon-Delalande Fondation

References

Bibliography

Borghi L. (2015) "Heart Matters. The Collaboration Between Surgeons and Engineers in the Rise of Cardiac Surgery". In: Pisano R. (eds) A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht, pp. 53-68

A.M.Matthews, The development of the Starr-Edwards heart valve, Tex Heart Inst J. 1998; 25(4): 282–293

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