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UMMC patient celebrates 50th anniversary of congenital heart repair
Monday, May 13, 2024
Monica Harrion, an art director, animator and designer in Burbank, California, is living a healthy life thanks to heart surgery performed at the University of Mississippi Medical Center 50 years ago. Dr. Akio Suzuki, a world-class heart surgeon, performed the operation, and her pediatric cardiologist, Dr. David Watson, was the state’s first.
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