Edward Stinson (surgeon)

Edward B. Stinson (born 1938) is an American retired cardiothoracic surgeon living in Los Altos, United States, who assisted Norman Shumway in America's first adult human-to-human heart transplantation on 6 January 1968 at Stanford University.

Edward B. Stinson
Born1938
San Diego, California
NationalityAmerican
EducationStanford University
Known for
  • Assisting in America's first adult human-to-human heart transplantation, 1968.
  • Founding member of ISHLT 1981.
Medical career
ProfessionCardiothoracic surgeon
FieldHeart transplant

For over twenty years, Stinson was the principal investigator for the National Institutes of Health programme project in heart transplantation at Stanford.

In 1981, he was a founding member of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) and chaired their first international programme.

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