Viking Bjork

Viking Olov Björk (3 December 1918 – 18 February 2009) was a Swedish cardiac surgeon. In 1968, he collaborated with American engineer Donald Shiley to develop the first "monostrut tilting disc valve" used to replace the aortic or mitral valve. The Bjork-Shiley heart valve was manufactured by Pfizer after they bought the Shiley company in 1979. In 1980 Björk wrote to Pfizer threatening to publish cases of valve failures — often fatal to the patie... more

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  • Dec 3, 1918

Date of death:

  • Feb 18, 2009 (age 90 years)

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