Brian Barratt-Boyes

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sir Brian Gerald Barratt-Boyes, KBE (13 January 1924 - 8 March 2006) was a pioneering heart surgeon from New Zealand. Barratt-Boyes went to Victoria University before study medicine at Otago's Medical School, graduating in 1946. He continued his training as a surgeon, initially in New Zealand, and later at the Mayo Clinic (1953-5) and as a Nuffield Fellow in Bristol (1955-6). At Mayo he worked under John W. Kirklin, the two developing a high mutual regard that endured and grew over the years.