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WHF is thrilled to present the WHF Award for Outstanding Contribution to Cardiovascular Health<\/strong> to Prof Jane Somerville<\/strong>, known for defining the concept and subspecialty of grown-ups with congenital heart disease<\/a>\u00a0(GUCH) and being chosen as the physician involved with Britain’s first\u00a0heart transplantation<\/a>\u00a0in 1968.<\/p>\n

Following studies in the sciences at\u00a0Queen’s College<\/a>\u00a0school,\u00a0Harley Street<\/a>, London, Somerville gained admission into the male dominated\u00a0Guy’s Hospital Medical School<\/a>, where women medical students had been present for only the previous two years and the class was more than 90% men. During her student years, she was influenced by a visit to the school by\u00a0Alfred Blalock<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0Johns Hopkins Hospital<\/a>, whose achievements in treating\u00a0tetralogy of Fallot<\/a>\u00a0with the\u00a0Blalock Taussig shunt<\/a>, transformed the lives of children. The once fatal heart disease could now be corrected and turn a blue baby to pink in minutes.<\/p>\n

She became the first female medical registrar at Guy’s Hospital. In 1958, she became a registrar at the\u00a0National Heart Hospital<\/a>\u00a0where cardiologist\u00a0Paul Wood<\/a>\u00a0took her on to his team. Here, her interest in congenital heart disease led her to take on simultaneous work at the\u00a0Hospital for Sick Children in Great Ormond Street<\/a>, London, and she learnt about diseases in babies and surgery with\u00a0Richard Bonham Carter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0David Waterston<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 1967, during a time of significant innovations in heart surgery, Somerville was appointed as a consultant at the National Heart Hospital. She recognised the unmet need of the increasing number of adolescents and adults who were now surviving the heart conditions they were born with, thus founding the concept of GUCH.\u00a0This new group of survivors had new medical problems and some soon required repeat operations, challenging the cardiologists of the time.<\/p>\n

Somerville also worked alongside cardio-thoracic surgeon\u00a0Donald Ross<\/a>, who chose her to be the cardiologist for the first\u00a0heart transplantation<\/a>\u00a0in the UK in 1968.\u00a0They co-authored a number of innovative articles, including in 1966, the first report of the use of a homograft\u00a0aortic valve<\/a>\u00a0to repair\u00a0pulmonary atresia<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 1980, she held the first World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology in London, a concept she envisaged.\u00a0In 1988, she enlisted the help of American heart surgeon\u00a0John W. Kirklin<\/a>\u00a0during the first Paediatric Cardiac Surgical Congress in\u00a0Bergamo<\/a>, resulting in a collaboration between heart physicians and heart surgeons. In the early 1990s, she founded the\u00a0European Society of Cardiology<\/a> Working Group on GUCH and became its chairperson in 1995. In 1998, Somerville was appointed emeritus professor of cardiology, Imperial College. She retired a year later.<\/p>\n

The World Heart Awards are all about celebrating new ideas and recognising the talents and achievements of those working to combat cardiovascular disease around the world. To learn more about the 2020 Awards, click here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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