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Dr Thomas E. Starzl Famous memorial

Birth	:	11 Mar 1926 Le Mars, Plymouth County, Iowa, USA
Death	:	4 Mar 2017 Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial	:	Calvary Cemetery, Le Mars, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate	:	42.7939000, -96.1527100
Description	:	Surgeon, Physician. He was considered "the father of modern transplantation". He attended Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri where he earned a B.S. degree in biology. He then attended Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago and earned his Masters, Ph.D., and M.D.. After graduating, he trained in surgery at both Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida. He was a surgeon at the University of Colorado from 1962 to 1981. He then went on to the University of Pittsburgh... Read More	Surgeon, Physician. He was considered "the father of modern transplantation". He attended Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri where he earned a B.S. degree in biology. He then attended Northwestern University Medical School in Chicago and earned his Masters, Ph.D., and M.D.. After graduating, he trained in surgery at both Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland and Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, Florida. He was a surgeon at the University of Colorado from 1962 to 1981. He then went on to the University of Pittsburgh where the hospital became the busiest transplant center in the world. In the 1960s he improved kidney transplantation by giving patients the steroid prednisone along with the anti-rejection drug Imuran. He repeated the same steroid strategy to improve the success of liver transplantation. In 1963 he performed the first liver transplant in Denver, but it was not successful. Four years later, in 1967, he performed the first successful liver transplant on a patient who survived for a year. Since that first successful liver transplant, there has been thousands of lives that have been saved by similar operations. He also pioneered many other medical achievements during his career and earned many awards and honors for his work. He retired in 1991 from clinical and surgical service in 1991, but remained at the University of Pittsburgh as professor of surgery until his passing.

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Where is Dr Thomas E. Starzl Famous memorial's memorial?
Dr Thomas E. Starzl Famous memorial's memorial is located at: Calvary Cemetery, Le Mars, Plymouth County, USA.
When did Dr Thomas E. Starzl Famous memorial death?
Dr Thomas E. Starzl Famous memorial death on 4 Mar 2017 in Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA
Where are the coordinates of the Dr Thomas E. Starzl Famous memorial's memorial?
Latitude: 42.7939000
Longitude: -96.1527100

Family Members:

Parent

Romanus Frederick Starzl

(1899 - 1976)

Anna Laura Fitzgerald Starzl

(1900 - 1947)

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Nearby Cemetories:

1. Calvary Cemetery
Le Mars, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7939000, -96.1527100

2. Memorial Cemetery
Le Mars, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7875000, -96.1504920

3. Resthaven Cemetery
Le Mars, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8375015, -96.1686020

4. Seney Cemetery
Seney, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8586655, -96.1265106

5. Saint Catherines Cemetery
Oyens, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8224200, -96.0563900

6. Saint Peter Cemetery
Brunsville, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8081017, -96.2767029

7. Hillside Cemetery
Merrill, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7291985, -96.2544022

8. Assumption Catholic Cemetery
Merrill, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7214480, -96.2583450

9. Saint Joseph Cemetery
Struble, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8953018, -96.2005997

10. Christ Lutheran Church Cemetery
Le Mars, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8514600, -96.2902600

11. Stanton Cemetery
Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.6786003, -96.1900024

12. Saint Marys Cemetery
Remsen, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8078003, -95.9781036

13. Remsen Cemetery
Remsen, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8058014, -95.9775009

14. Plymouth Presbyterian Cemetery
Brunsville, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8208760, -96.3318410

15. Union Cemetery
Remsen, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.6917000, -96.0291977

16. Saint Paul Lutheran Cemetery
Adaville, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7484000, -96.3315000

17. Saint Joseph Catholic Cemetery
Neptune, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.6447560, -96.1148360

18. Floyd Valley Cemetery
Hinton, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.6556015, -96.2514038

19. Saint Johns Cemetery
Craig, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8939018, -96.3225021

20. Mathwig Wetrovsky Cemetery
Le Mars, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.6338000, -96.1723000

21. Trinity Lutheran Church Cemetery
Hinton, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.6330950, -96.1937720

22. Saint Marys Cemetery
Maurice, Sioux County, USA
Coordinate: 42.9594002, -96.1769028

23. Saint Joseph Cemetery
Johnson Township, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.7416992, -96.3707962

24. Saint Johns Lutheran Church Cemetery
Ruble, Plymouth County, USA
Coordinate: 42.8372000, -96.3799000