Professor Stephen Westaby FRCS (born 27 July 1948) is a British heart surgeon at

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Career

Westaby and his team performed Peter Houghton's heart operation in June 2000, implanting a Jarvik 7 artificial left ventricular assist device, a turbine pump. Peter Houghton (1938–2007) became the longest living person with an electrical heart pump in the world. His memoir of his career as a heart surgeon, ''Open Heart: A Heart Surgeon’s Stories of Life and Death on the Operating Table'', was published in 2017 by

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. The book was shortlisted for the 2017

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Biography Award and won the 2017 BMA president's choice award. A second memoir, ''The Knife's Edge: The Heart and Mind of a Cardiac Surgeon'', was published by HarperCollins in 2019.

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1948 births 21st-century English medical doctors Alumni of Charing Cross Medical School British cardiac surgeons English surgeons Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons of England Living people People from Scunthorpe Physicians of the John Radcliffe Hospital {{UK-med-bio-stub