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William Imon Norwood Jr. also ''Bill Norwood'' (April 21, 1941 – December 13, 2020)Dr. William I. Norwood: A Tribute
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Norwood procedure The Norwood procedure is the first of three surgeries intended to create a new functional systemic circuit in patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome and other complex heart defects with single ventricle physiology. The first successful Norw ...
'', a pioneering cardiac operation named after him for children born with
Hypoplastic left heart syndrome Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS) is a rare congenital heart defect in which the left side of the heart is severely underdeveloped and incapable of supporting the systemic circulation. It is estimated to account for 2-3% of all congenital hea ...
.


Early life and education

William Norwood was born in
Camden, Arkansas Camden is a city in and the county seat of Ouachita County in the south-central part of the U.S. state of Arkansas. The city is located about 100 miles south of Little Rock. Situated on bluffs overlooking the Ouachita River, the city developed ...
, to William and Pearl Norwood. First, he studied chemistry and biology at the University of New Mexico and then medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. His postgraduate training in cardiothoracic surgery was at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Harvard and a pediatric cardiothoracic fellowship at Boston Children's Medical Center, Harvard University. Later, he was appointed chief of cardiothoracic surgery at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania.


Career

Norwood co-founded and was vice president, president and then CEO of the Aldo Castañeda Institute in Genolier, Switzerland. Nemours Cardiac Center in Wilmington, Delaware was the institution from which he retired after a long and successful career as a heart surgeon. Norwood was also the developer of pioneering heart surgery in infants and newborns for congenital heart defects. The Norwood Procedure is the first of three operations performed to correct the congenital cardiac lesion known as hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). The procedure is typically done within a few days of life of newborns. Project HOPE, was extending its charitable help also to countries in Eastern Europe and Bill Norwood started his visits to Poland. In late 1970s he came with other American staff to the Polish-American Institute of Pediatrics in Cracow, Poland. His work and initiative was instrumental in organizing and developing pediatric cardiac surgery in this region of Poland.


Death

Norwood died in Albuquerque on December 13, 2020, at age 79


See also

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Francis Fontan Francis Fontan (2 July 1929 – 14 January 2018) was a French cardiologist and cardiothoracic surgeon best known for developing the Fontan procedure, a surgical procedure used to treat some forms of congenital heart disease. Early life and ...
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William Glenn William Wallace Lumpkin Glenn (August 12, 1914 – March 10, 2003) was an American cardiac surgeon who co-created an early version of an artificial heart and was the developer of a technique for the treatment of congenital heart defects. Glen ...


References

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