Awards & Winners

Clarence Crafoord

Date of Birth 1899
Place of Birth Sweden
(Europe, Eurasia, Scandinavian Peninsula, Northern Europe, Nordic countries, Scandinavia)
Nationality Sweden
Clarence Crafoord was a Swedish cardiovascular surgeon, best known for performing the first successful repair of aortic coarctation on 19 October 1944, one year before Robert E. Gross. Crafoord also introduced heparin as thrombosis prophylaxis in the 1930s and he pioneered mechanical positive-pressure ventilation during thoracic operations in the 1940s. Crafoord was professor of thoracic surgery at Karolinska Institutet from 1948 to 1966.

Awards by Clarence Crafoord

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1962


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(In recognition of his contributions to the knowledge of cardiology and especially for his leadership in the field of cardiac surgery, including his pioneer development of operations to correct coarctation of the aorta and patent ductus arteriosus.)