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Dr. Thomas E. Starzl in 1989 at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He died on Saturday in Pittsburgh.
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Thomas Starzl
Died on March 4, 2017 at age 90
A surgeon and researcher, Dr. Starzl performed the first successful liver transplant on a human patient in the 1960s and later helped advance the breakthrough drugs that made organ transplants markedly more survivable.
Notable Deaths 2017
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