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Nazih Zuhdi was born in Beirut, Lebanon, on May 19, 1925. He

earned a Doctor of Medicine degree from the American University of Beirut in

1950, before immigrating to the United States in 1951. He completed his

surgical internship at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical

Center. From 1952 to 1956, he continued his medical training through a

fellowship at the State University of New York – Downstate Medical Center in

Brooklyn, where he became fascinated with heart-lung machines and the concept

of using mechanical assist devices for a failing heart. Zuhdi’s research

significantly contributed to the creation of the heart-lung machine used in our

nation’s first successful open-heart surgery in 1953. The medical landscape

would never be the same as replicas and modified versions of the machine became

commonplace. Zuhdi attended the University of Minnesota and continued to study

under some of the greatest minds of medicine - until he eventually became one

himself. In 1957, Zuhdi was recruited to Oklahoma. It is here, that he would

live his life and leave his legacy. In 1959, with Drs. Allen Greer and John

Carey, Zuhdi performed the first heart bypass operation in Oklahoma and

installed our state’s first pacemaker. Soon after, he started his career at

Baptist Medical Center. He performed the first open-heart surgery at the new

hospital in 1963. Dr. Zuhdi officially retired in 1999 and the Oklahoma

Transplant Institute was renamed in his honor. The INTEGRIS Nazih Zuhdi

Transplant Institute is still one of only 60 lung transplant facilities in the

world. It is recognized as one of the leading transplantation institutions in

the United States and remains the only comprehensive transplant center in

Oklahoma. The institute is dedicated to remembering his legacy and furthering

his vision, and will proudly bear his name for generations to come. Also in the

‘60s, Zuhdi developed what he called Total Intentional Hemodilution (TIH), the priming

of a heart-lung machine without blood. This discovery would change the future

of medical treatment for the human heart – and eventually all other organs.

Open-heart surgery became possible on a scale never before imagined.

Hemodilution was the new standard procedure in hospitals around the globe. In

fact, the technique was used by Christian Barnard, M.D., in the world’s first

human heart transplant in 1967. Zuhdi’s ideas and development of new machines

and methods to treat the human heart continued to earn worldwide recognition.

In 1970, Zuhdi implanted a human patient with the aortic valve from a pig. It

was the first such procedure performed in North America. In 1984, Zuhdi created

the Oklahoma Transplant Institute as a venue for organ transplantation. His

vision was to create one comprehensive transplant center, specializing in

heart, kidney, lung, liver, pancreas and small bowel transplants. It would be

the first facility in the world to develop such a program. In 1985, Zuhdi

performed the state’s first human to human heart transplant and the first such

procedure in the nation in a hospital not associated with a medical school.

There were only a dozen hospitals in the U.S. that had performed a heart

transplant at the time. Also, that year, Zuhdi performed a piggyback/tandem

heart transplant, the first in Oklahoma and only the sixth in the country. In

1987, Zuhdi and Dimitri Novitsky, M.D., performed Oklahoma’s first human

heart-lung transplant and Zuhdi implanted the state’s first left ventricular assist

device. The next year, he implanted both a left and right ventricular assist

device in a single patient – another state first. In 1990, Zuhdi performed the

state’s first single-lung transplant, and in 1994 he performed Oklahoma’s first

double-lung transplant. While he didn’t actually perform the following

surgeries, Zuhdi is credited for laying the ground work for other Oklahoma

firsts to take place at Baptist Medical Center including our state’s first

adult and pediatric liver transplants, many combined organ transplants and the

implantation of various heart pump technologies. In 1998, Oklahoma Governor

Frank Keating signed a bill into law that provided for organs donated in

Oklahoma to first be offered to Oklahoma patients needing transplants. Zuhdi was

a strong supporter of the legislation and helped develop the Oklahoma Organ

Sharing Network. Governors Keating and Brad Henry later bestowed on Zuhdi a

proclamation and commendation acknowledging his many medical contributions. His

is the only medical research conducted within the boundaries of Oklahoma that

is recognized in World’s Who’s Who in Science: A Biographical Dictionary of

Notable Scientists from Antiquity to the Present. Zuhdi is also a celebrated

member of the Oklahoma Hall of Fame.

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