Awards & Winners

William Thornton Mustard

Date of Birth 08-August-1914
Place of Birth Clinton, Ontario
(Ontario)
Nationality Canada
Also know as Dr. William Mustard
Profession Surgeon, Physician, Cardiac surgeon
William Thornton Mustard, OC MBE was a Canadian physician and cardiac surgeon. In 1949, he was one of the first to perform open-heart surgery using a mechanical heart pump and biological lung on a dog at the Banting Institute. He developed two operations named for him: the "Mustard operation" in orthopedics used to help hip use in people with polio and the "Mustard cardiovascular procedure" used to help correct heart problems in "blue babies," which has saved thousands of children worldwide.

Awards by William Thornton Mustard

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1975


Gairdner Foundation International Award
(In recognition of his outstanding contributions in the area of cardiovascular surgery, in particular the achievement of the ingenious operation for the transposition of the great vessels, for which the operation now bears his name.)