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Simon Stertzer

Who

Simon Stertzer · Science & Medicine

What

Cardiologist who was a pioneer of coronary balloon angioplasty

When

1936

Where

United States (New York · Stanford, California)

Biography

Simon Stertzer is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Cardiologist who was a pioneer of coronary balloon angioplasty

How & why

Simon H. Stertzer is an American cardiologist who performed the first percutaneous coronary balloon angioplasty in the United States in 1978, helping to establish interventional cardiology as a field and pioneering technologies such as coronary stents and rotational atherectomy. He became a professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is Jewish.

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Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science

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Cardiologist who was a pioneer of coronary balloon angioplasty

1936

Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Biomedical Science