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Dr. George E. Green is an innovator in the application of micro-suture techniques to coronary artery surgery. He is also the first American surgeon to perform a left coronary artery bypass graft using the internal thoracic artery sutured to the left anterior descending coronary artery to bypass obstruction to the heart circulation. He developed these techniques in 1968, and in 1970 brought them to St. Luke’s Hospital to establish a cardiac surgery program that by 1982 was seeing approximately 1,800 cases a year - the biggest program in the state.

Green, George E.