# Christiaan Barnard (@christiaan-barnard)

Christiaan Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon. Barnard led the Cape Town team that performed the first human-to-human heart transplant in December 1967; the recipient survived 18 days.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Christiaan Barnard's public record._

## Topics

- [Ethics and Apartheid](/@christiaan-barnard/ethics-and-apartheid.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [The First Human-to-Human Heart Transplant](/@christiaan-barnard/the-first-human-to-human-heart-transplant.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Transplantation Teams](/@christiaan-barnard/transplantation-teams.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.uct.ac.za/news/heart-transplant-50
- blog: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2175000/
- blog: https://www.groote-schuur-hospital.org.za/museum/

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "christiaan-barnard", "question": "…"}`.