Dr. James KirklinThe Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery’s James Kirklin, M.D., will be representing the UAB Department of Surgery and KIRSO at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa, for the 50th anniversary of the first human heart transplant. Kirklin will serve as the Ambassador of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery at this event held at the University of Cape Town, where Professor Christiaan Barnard performed the world's first human heart transplant in 1967. Learn more about that historic moment here.