1. The Road Less Traveled: Pioneers and Pioneering
W. Randolph Chitwood, MD 
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 
Volume 91, Issue 4, Pages (April 2011)
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2. Fig 1
Dr Edmund Madison Chitwood (“Pops”) shown in his office (circa 1922) in Wytheville, Virginia.
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3. Fig 2
“The Big Four —The Chitwood Clinic” (left to right): Dr Charlie Graham, Dr Edmund Chitwood (“Pops”), Dr Carl Stark, and Dr W. Randolph Chitwood, Sr (“Dad”).
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4. Fig 3
Dr W. Randolph Chitwood, Sr, and Ruth Reed Chitwood, RN, Dr Chitwood's parents, on the steps of the National Library of Medicine.
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5. Fig 4
Dr W. Randolph Chitwood, Jr (right) and his father (left) are shown at the dissecting table at the University of Virginia in It was a family tradition to be photographed with one's first year cadaver.
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6. Fig 5
Dr David Coston Sabiston, Jr (left), Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, Duke University, and Dr. W. Randolph Chitwood, Jr, Chief Resident, (right) in 1984.
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7. Fig 6
Dr Will Camp Sealy, Professor of Surgery, Duke University and Sixth President of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons in He was called the “WPW Papa” at his retirement party.
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8. Fig 7
“The Ultimate Huddle” (left to right): Alain Carpentier, MD, Francis Robicsek, MD, Roland Hetzer, MD, and Michael DeBakey, MD (American Association for Thoracic Surgery President), are shown in Leipzig in 2001.
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9. Fig 8
“All Pioneers” (left to right): Sir Brian Barratt-Boyes, MD, Rene Favaloro, MD, James Cox, MD (American Association for Thoracic Surgery President), Hermes Grillo, MD (The Society of Thoracic Surgeons President), Alain Carpentier, MD, and Joel Cooper, MD (American Association for Thoracic Surgery President), in Paris in 2000.
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10. Fig 9
Denton Cooley, MD, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons President (center), is shown on early morning rounds with his residents (circa 2005).
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11. Fig 10
A 3-dimensional transesophageal echo topographic mitral valve model shows a prolapse of several segments of the posterior leaflet. Red highlights define the prolapsing segments. Blue shows normal coapting parts of anterior and posterior leaflets. (A = anterior; AL = anterior commissure; P = posterior; PM = posterior medial.)
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12. W. Randolph Chitwood, Jr, MD
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