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Overview

Norman E. Shumway was affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their work spanned multiple fields, with notable contributions to both physics and astronomy as well as medicine. The scientist's research frequently intersected areas such as climate change and geoengineering, space exploration and regulation, space science and extraterrestrial life, and methods and outcomes in organ transplantation.

Shumway's recent scholarly output included publications in diverse venues. Among these were:

  • Cardiac Transplantation, 2023, published in American Registry of PathologyArlington, Virginia eBooks
  • A call for strategic assessments of regional applications of solar radiation management: Exploring the challenges and opportunities from marine cloud brightening and albedo surface modification, 2024, published in Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Their research topics covered a broad range of themes, including:

  • Climate Change and Geoengineering
  • Space exploration and regulation
  • Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life
  • Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes
  • Organ Transplantation Techniques and Outcomes
  • Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices

Shumway collaborated with various coauthors throughout their career, among whom were:

  • Umberto Baresi
  • Chad M. Baum
  • Thomas B. Fischer
  • Stewart Lockie
  • Annah Piggott-McKellar

The researcher's publications were also distributed within key academic venues, such as:

  • Environmental Impact Assessment Review
  • American Registry of PathologyArlington, Virginia eBooks

Subfields of their work spanned:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • Surgery
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Biomedical Engineering

Best Publications

  • Management of acute aortic dissections.

    Pat O. Daily;H. Ward Trueblood;Edward B. Stinson;Robert D. Wuerflein

  • Cytomegalovirus Infection Is Associated With Cardiac Allograft Rejection and Atherosclerosis

    Mark T. Grattan;Carlos E. Moreno-Cabral;Vaughn A. Starnes;Phillip E. Oyer

  • Heart-lung transplantation: successful therapy for patients with pulmonary vascular disease.

    Bruck A. Reitz;John L. Wallwork;Sharon A. Hunt;John L. Pennock

  • Studies on orthotopic homotransplantation of the canine heart.

    R R Lower;N E Shumway

  • Post-transplant obliterative bronchiolitis and other late lung sequelae in human heart-lung transplantation.

    Conor M. Burke;James Theodore;Keith D. Dawkins;Samuel A. Yousem

  • Treatment of patients with aortic dissection presenting with peripheral vascular complications.

    James Fann;George Sarris;R. Mitchell;Norman Shumway

  • Operative treatment of aortic dissections. Experience with 125 patients over a sixteen-year period.

    D. Craig Miller;Edward B. Stinson;Philip E. Oyer;Stephen J. Rossiter

  • Homovital transplantation of the heart.

    Richard R. Lower;Raymond C. Stofer;Norman E. Shumway

  • Is medical therapy still the optimal treatment strategy for patients with acute type B aortic dissections

    Juan P. Umaña;David T. Lai;R.Scott Mitchell;Kathleen A. Moore

  • Profound local hypothermia for myocardial protection during open-heart surgery.

    Randall B. Griepp;Edward B. Stinson;Norman E. Shumway

  • Heart and lung transplantation: autotransplantation and allotransplantation in primates with extended survival.

    Bruce A. Reitz;Nelson A. Burton;Stuart W. Jamieson;Charles P. Bieber

  • Cardiac transplantation in man. VII. Cardiac allograft pathology.

    Charles P. Bieber;Edward B. Stinson;Norman E. Shumway;Rose Payne

  • Transplantation of the heart.

    Shumway Ne;Lower Rr;Stofer Rc

  • Treatment of endocarditis with valve replacement: the question of tissue versus mechanical prosthesis.

    Marc R Moon;D.Craig Miller;Kathleen A Moore;Phillip E Oyer

  • Long-term follow-up after isolated aortic valve replacement

    Jack G. Copeland;Randall B. Griepp;Edward B. Stinson;Norman E. Shumway

  • Primary cardiac neoplasms: early and late results of surgical treatment in 42 patients

    J R Dein;J R Dein;W H Frist;W H Frist;E B Stinson;E B Stinson;D C Miller;D C Miller

  • Cardiac transplantation in perspective for the future. Survival, complications, rehabilitation, and cost.

    John L. Pennock;Philip E. Oyer;Bruce A. Reitz;Stuart W. Jamieson

  • Hemodynamic observations one and two years after cardiac transplantation in man.

    Edward B. Stinson;Randall B. Griepp;John S. Schroeder;Eugene Dong

  • Ebstein's anomaly appearing in the neonate. A new surgical approach.

    Vaughn A. Starnes;Paul T. Pitlick;Daniel Bernstein;Michael L. Griffin

  • Durability of porcine valves at fifteen years in a representative North American patient population.

    Thomas A. Burdon;D. Craig Miller;Philip E. Oyer;R. Scott Mitchell

Frequent Co-Authors

Edward B. Stinson
Edward B. Stinson Stanford University
Philip E. Oyer
Philip E. Oyer Stanford University
Bruce A. Reitz
Bruce A. Reitz Stanford University
Randall B. Griepp
Randall B. Griepp Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Stuart W. Jamieson
Stuart W. Jamieson University of California, San Diego
D. Craig Miller
D. Craig Miller Stanford University
Margaret E. Billingham
Margaret E. Billingham Stanford University
Donald C. Harrison
Donald C. Harrison University of Cincinnati
Sharon A. Hunt
Sharon A. Hunt Stanford University
John S. Schroeder
John S. Schroeder Stanford University

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