Historic Leadership
Stanford Department Chairs
2014 – Current
Joseph Woo, MD
Chair & Norman E. Shumway Professor and, by courtesy, of Bioengineering
1974 – 1993
Norman E. Shumway Jr., MD, PhD
Founder of Stanford Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and First Chair
2005 – 2012
Robert C. Robbins, MD
Thelma and Henry Doelger Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery II (2009 – 2012)
Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (2005 – 2012)
A Legacy of Leadership
1986
William H. Frist
Former United States Senator, Tennessee
1983
R. Scott Mitchell
Professor, Emeritus
Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Stanford University School of Medicine
1979
Donald C. Watson
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Tennessee School of Medicine
1976
Bruce A. Reitz
Chair, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine
1972
Randall B. Griepp
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
1961
Richard R. Lower
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Medical College of Virginia
1986
Vaughn A. Starnes
Chair, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Southern California
1981
John Wallwork
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cambridge University School of Medicine
1978
William A. Baumgartner
Chief, Div of CT Surgery, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
1975
Jack G. Copeland
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Arizona School of Medicine
1971
Lawrence H. Cohn
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard University School of Medicine
1983
John C. Baldwin
Dean, Dartmouth University School of Medicine
1980
Stuart W. Jamieson
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of California San Diego School of Medicine
1977
D. Craig Miller
Professor, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine
1974
Philip E. Oyer
Professor, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine
1968
Edward B. Stinson
Professor, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Director, Cardiac Transplantation, Stanford University School of Medicine