Wilfred gordon bigelow biography
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Wilfred Gordon 9 BIGELOW
1592C.1653 Wilfred Gordon 9 MD, BIGELOW, son of Wilfred Abram 8 ( Abraham 7 ( Ebenezer 6 , Amasa 5 , Isaac 4, Isaac 3, Samuel 2, John1) and Grace Ann (GORDON) BIGELOW, was born 18 June 1913. He married Ruth Jennings on 09 July 1941. He was a surgeon who invented the technique of hypothermia for open-heart surgery, and performed the world's first such procedure on a dog at the Banting Institute in 1949, was also a co-inventor of the pacemaker. He is considered father of Cardiovascular surgery in Canada and received the beställning of Canada in 1981. He was inducted into the Medical Hall of Fame. gods residence, Brandon, ONT. Dr. Bigelow died 27 March 2005 in Toronto at the age of 91. (see below)
4 Children of Wilfred and Ruth (Jennings) Bigelow:
1592C.16531 John, b _____ ; d _____ ;
1592C.16532 Dan, b _____ ; d ____
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Dr. Wilfred G. Bigelow Biographical Sketch
Dr. Wilfred Gordon Bigelow was born June 18, 1913 in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of Grace Ann Carnegie Gordon Bigelow and Dr. Wilfred Abram Bigelow. Dr. W.A. Bigelow (1879-1966) was a general practitioner and surgeon, a charter member of the American College of Surgeons (1913), and the founder of the first private medical clinic in Canada, in Brandon, 1913.
Dr. W.G. Bigelow was educated at Brandon collegiate, Brentwood College in Victoria, B.C., Brandon College (1931), and the University of Toronto (B.A. 1935, M.D. 1938, M.S. 1938). His post-graduate medical/surgical training included surgical residencies under Dr. W.E. Gallie at the Toronto General Hospital (TGH), 1938-1941, and a Research Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University Hospital, 1946-47, where he trained in vascular and cardiac surgery under Dr. Richard Bing and Dr. Alfred Blalock, the founder of modern cardiac surgery.
In July 1941, Dr. Bigelow married Margaret Ruth Jenning
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Wilfred Gordon Bigelow
Canadian heart surgeon
Wilfred Gordon "Bill" BigelowOC FRSC (June 18, 1913 – March 27, 2005) was a Canadianheartsurgeon known for his role in developing the artificial pacemaker and the use of hypothermia in open heart surgery.[1]
Born in Brandon, Manitoba, the son of Dr. Wilfred Abram Bigelow, founder of the first private medical clinic in Canada, and Grace Ann Gordon, nurse and midwife, he gained his MD from the University of Toronto in 1938. He served during World War II as a captain in the Royal Canadian Medical Army Corps, performing battle surgery on the frontlines. He was appointed to the surgical staff of Toronto General Hospital in 1947, after spending a year at Johns Hopkins Medical School, and then a year later to the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto in 1948.
In the 1950s, Bigelow developed the idea of using hypothermia as a medical procedure. This involves reducing a patient's body temperature prio