C. Walton Lillehei Museum

	Photos from the museum Panel Text and Images: Select link U of M and its Giants Lillehei the Man Surgery's Last Frontier The Azygos Factor Lillehei the Maverick $15 Design Lillehei the Innovator Lillehei the Educator Epilogue Acknowledgements

The museum displays take you back to 1950 - 1967 at the University of Minnesota. "This was an unprecedented period of research, discovery, clinical testing, many successes, some failures, all in all, one of the most concentrated periods of productive efforts in the history of human medicine. This, in an attempt to safely and reproducibly enter, repair, and exit the diseased human heart. Cross-circulation, the bubble oxygenator and a safe heart-lung machine, many surgical firsts, all emanated from the research labs and operating rooms at the University of Minnesota. Walt Lillehei was the catalyst for all this invention and progress." R. Morton Bolman, M.D., memorial service for Walt Lillehei, August 5, 1999.

Open to the public by appointment
contact LHI at (612) 624-7610 or lhi@umn.edu
Museum Hours: 8:30am - 4:30pm, M-F
Location:
    Lillehei Heart Institute
     1st floor Dwan Variety Club Cardiovascular Research Ctr.
    University of Minnesota, Minneapolis East Bank Campus
    425 East River Rd.
    Minneapolis, MN 55455
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