Dr. Michael DeBakey, known for the coronary bypass, is now featured in
the archives of the National Library of Medicine. Selections from the Michael E. DeBakey Papers collection,
including publications, speeches, drawings, correspondence, portraits, oral
history interviews and video recordings, can be freely viewed online. His advocacy
is a big reason the National Library of Medicine exists today. NLM has also
launched a fellowship program in his honor.
DeBakey “translated his expertise in the OR into
political and policy capital on local, national and international levels to
affect medical research funding, medical education and broader disease awareness”
said Dr. Shelley McKellar, Hannah Chair
in the History of Medicine at Western University in London, Canada, speaking at
the first annual NLM Michael DeBakey Lecture in the History of Medicine on
March 2, 2017.
From a story by Dana Talesnik, NLM in Focus, May 9, 2017.
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