Jonathan Drummond-Webb

Who was Jonathan Drummond-Webb?

Jonathan Drummond-Webb was a South African pediatric heart surgeon.

He gained national attention by way of a TV series produced by ABC NEWS called "ICU: Arkansas Children's Hospital", which showcased complicated operations during the summer of 2002. Late in 2004, he led a team that successfully kept a child alive with a newly developed heart pump until a heart transplant could be performed. The child, Travis Marcus, was able to go home in time for Christmas with a gift and a hug from Dr. Drummond-Webb.

Drummond-Webb was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and graduated from the University of Witwatersrand in 1982. He completed an internship and two residencies there. He and his wife Lorraine De Blanche came to the U.S. in 1993 so he could do a surgical fellowship at the University of Utah. Two years later, he went on to another fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic. There, he became the surgical director of pediatric cardiac and lung transplantation. In 2001, he was named chief of pediatric and congenital cardiac surgery at the Arkansas Children's Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas. He held that post at the time of his death.