Dr. Levi Watkins Jr: The First To Implant An Automatic Defibrillator Into A Human Heart, In 1980
Dr. Levi Watkins Jr., a cardiac surgeon, was the first to implant an automatic defibrillator into a human heart in 1980. He was also a cardiac surgery professor and associate dean at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Watkins was born in Parsons, Kansas, but spent his childhood in Montgomery, Alabama. He went … Read more