It was well known that Dr. Albert Starr was one of the world’s top few cardiovascular surgeons, (“Dr. Albert Starr, Oregon co-inventor of the first successful artificial heart valve, dies at 98,” Dec.
Dr. Albert Starr was born in New York City in 1926 and received his medical degree from Columbia College in 1949. In 1957, Starr was recruited to establish the first open-heart surgery program at ...