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King of Hearts: Dreams of a Shepherd Boy (38/52)


This is also part of this series: Scattering of Seeds, A (52)

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Subjects: Canadian History, Family Studies, Immigration, Medicine, Multicultural Studies

Grade Level: JrH-Adult
Producer: White Pine Pictures
Closed Captioned: No
Running Time: 30 mins
Country of Origin: Canada
Study Guide: No

Copyright Date: 1998
Available in French: Yes

Canada's startling reputation as a world leader in heart transplants and research is largely due to the efforts of a Kurdish immigrant. Tofy Mussivand was a young man when he fled the Shah's Iran in 1957. After studying engineering and working across Canada, Dr. Mussivand left to pursue medicine and biomedical engineering in the United States. Bringing back extraordinary expertise, he settled in Ottawa, where his knowledge pushed the frontier of heart transplants and made the city an unlikely centre of world class heart technology and research. Highly skilled and personally driven, Dr. Mussivand invented an artificial heart that may well revolutionize the success rate of transplants. In French: Une jeune berger devenu Roi des Coeurs