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Leonard Lee Bailey — was an American surgeon who garnered international media attention in for transplanting a baboon's heart into a human infant.

Leonard Bailey, MD, the renowned Loma Linda University Health surgeon who garnered international media attention in for transplanting a baboon's heart.

Bailey was born on August 28, , in Takoma Park, Maryland. During the s, during his residency at Toronto's Hospital for Sick Children , Bailey observed that many children died from congenital heart diseases. This led him to return to Loma Linda University in as assistant professor at the School of Medicine. There he performed more than experimental heart transplants on young mammals so he could see if there was the possibility of transplantation in young mammals.

Baby Fae died 21 days later, at age 32 days. Her case is still discussed to this day. When asked why he had picked a baboon over a primate more closely related to humans in evolution, Bailey replied, "I don't believe in evolution. Bailey became recognized for transplantation and all types of pediatric and infant-open heart surgeries. Contents move to sidebar hide.

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