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Joseph Murray, left, and Thomas Starzl, after last week’s lecture.
BWH’s Department of Surgery last week brought together two transplant surgery pioneers: Joseph Murray, MD, who received the Nobel Prize for leading the world’s first successful organ transplant operation in 1954 at BWH, and Thomas E. Starzl, MD, PhD, professor of Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh’s Starzl Transplantation Institute.
Starzl, who performed the world’s first liver transplant operation at the University of Colorado in 1967, traveled to Boston last week to deliver the inaugural lecture as the first Murray Visiting Professor in Transplant Surgery to a standing-room only crowd in Bornstein Amphitheater.