W. Dudley Johnson, MD, a pioneer in coronary artery surgery, died Oct. 24 due to complications from a stroke, the New York Times reports. Johnson was 86.
During a career that lasted more than four decades, Johnson performed more than 8,500 heart bypass operations. His breakthrough in the late 1960s helped increase successful double, triple and quadruple bypass surgeries and led to widespread adoption of CABG procedures, according to the newspaper.
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Tim Casey joined TriMed Media Group in 2015 as Executive Editor. For the previous four years, he worked as an editor and writer for HMP Communications, primarily focused on covering managed care issues and reporting from medical and health care conferences. He was also a staff reporter at the Sacramento Bee for more than four years covering professional, college and high school sports. He earned his undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA degree from Georgetown University.