Michael DeBakey

American surgeon and innovator (1908–2008)

Michael Ellis DeBakey (September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was an American surgeon general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. His career spanned nearly eight decades. Born to Lebanese immigrants, DeBakey was inspired to pursue a career in medicine by the physicians that he had met at his father's drug store, and he simultaneously learned sewing skills from his mother.

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