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Michael Ellis DeBakey, M.D. (born September 7 , 1908 , Lake Charles , Louisiana , United States ) is a pioneering Cardiovascular Surgeon and researcher. His motto is "Strive for nothing less than excellence." His parents were Lebanese Christian immigrants. He received his Bachelor's and M.D. degrees from Tulane University in New Orleans . In 1937 , DeBakey joined the faculty of Tulane. He volunteered for military service during World War II , becoming the Director of the Surgical Consultants' Division in the United States Army Surgeon General's Office. During his term, he proposed a series of mobile field medical units called Mobile Army Surgical Hospital s or M.A.S.H.s that allowed experienced medical service that could be accessed quickly by the wounded. In 1953 , DeBakey performed the first successful Endarterectomy . In 1963 , DeBakey was the first to successfully implant an Artificial Heart . In 1965 , Time Magazine featured Dr. DeBakey on its cover for his pioneering work and innovations in cardiovascular surgery and the artificial heart. In 1969 , he received the Presidential Medal Of Freedom . During the same year, the Baylor College Of Medicine separated from Baylor University under his direction. In 1987 , President Ronald Reagan awarded him the National Medal Of Science . Russia n President Boris Yeltsin called DeBakey "a magician of the heart" after the surgeon performed quintuple bypass surgery on him in 1996 . Both the DeBakey High School For Health Professions and the Michael E. DeBakey Veteran's Affairs Hospital in the Texas Medical Center in Houston are named after him. An atraumatic vascular surgical clamp that he introduced also bears his name. On February 10, 2006, Michael DeBakey was hospitalized at the age of 97 at Houston's Methodist Hospital for an aortic Aneurysm . AWARDS
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