Former consultant cardiologist Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals, London (b 1931; q St George's Hospital, London, 1955; BSc, MD, FRCP), died from leak of aortic aneurysm graft on 23 June 2005.
Alan Harris had a long and distinguished career at the forefront of cardiological innovation, playing a central part from the first use of a demand pacemaker in Europe to the routine implantation of transvenous pacemakers. Patients requiring a pacemaker in the south of England had only one option in the late 1950s: to have devices built and then implanted at St George's Hospital. Alan headed this highly demanding service. He leaves a wife, Fleure, and four daughters.
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