Mervyn Gotsman
Academic
1935 –
Who is Mervyn Gotsman?
Mervyn S. Gotsman is Professor Emeritus of Cardiology at the Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel.
Professor Mervyn Samuel Gotsman, M.D. was born in 1935 in the town of Hermanus in South Africa to Benjamin, a physicist, and Ada, a housewife. The family originally came to South Africa from Lithuania, with an intermediate station in England.
He studied medicine at the University of Cape Town, graduating summa cum laude. In 1958, following a relatively early death of his father, he worked as a general practitioner in a small mining town in Rhodesia.
In the early sixties, he specialized in tropical medicine, and later completed his internship in internal medicine and cardiology in London and Birmingham, England. In 1964 he returned to South Africa and joined the cardiac clinic at the Groote Schuur hospital in Cape Town. In 1967 he referred Louis Washkansky for the first successful heart transplant performed by Professor Christiaan Barnard.
In 1968 he was appointed the director of the Department of Cardiology in Durban, South Africa, and was appointed professor of medicine at the University of Natal.
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- Born
- 1935
Hermanus, Western Cape - Nationality
- Israel
- Education
- University of Cape Town
- Lived in
- Jerusalem
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on July 23, 2013
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