Sharon Ann Hunt
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Sharon Ann Hunt is a cardiology professor and Director of the Post Heart Transplant Programme in Palo Alto, California and is affiliated with Stanford University Medical Center, professionally known for her work in the care of patients after heart transplantation.
Sharon Ann Hunt Professor | |
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Nationality | American |
Education | Stanford University |
Medical career | |
Profession | Cardiologist |
Field | Heart transplant |
Research | Organ rejection |
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With a career at Stanford spanning over fifty years, Hunt has witnessed the history of heart transplant surgery from the very first one in the US by Norman Shumway in 1968, through the international moratorium on heart transplants and the recent decades of combined heart-lung transplants and mechanical assist devices.
She is a past president of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation and received their lifetime achievement award in 2012.
As one of the 130 cardiology specialists at Stanford, her other activities include contributions to Uptodate and Hurst's Cardiology and more than 200 publications.