Editor's Note: In this episode Dr Ohman interviews Lynne W. Stevenson, MD, who went from saying that she would never have anything to do with heart transplant to becoming a leading authority on heart failure and transplant cardiology. This interview was recorded November 8, 2015.
E. Magnus Ohman, MD: Hello. I'm Magnus Ohman from Duke University. I'm very fortunate to have with me Dr Lynne Stevenson for the series called Life and Times of Leading Cardiologists. Lynne is a professor of medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School. Welcome to this program.
Lynne W. Stevenson, MD: Thank you. I'm happy to be here.
Early Childhood
Dr Ohman: So, where did you grow up? Where did your life start, so to speak?
Dr Stevenson: I was born in the Midwest and lived in Chicago until I was about 9 years old, and then my family moved out to Southern California.
Dr Ohman: Wow, you moved around quite a bit. Where exactly in the Midwest were you?
Dr Stevenson: Joplin, Missouri. Home of Mickey Mantle.
Dr Ohman: Are you a baseball fan?
Dr Stevenson: Not really.
Dr Ohman: Where did you go to high school?
Dr Stevenson:In Claremont, California, where the Claremont Colleges are.
