F. Mason Sones

F. Mason Sones ( born October 28, 1918 in Noxapater, Mississippi; † August 28, 1985 in Cleveland, Ohio) was an American physician. He was a pioneer of cardiac catheterization (coronary angiography ).

Sones studied at Western Maryland College with a bachelor 's degree in 1950 and at the University of Maryland School of Medicine with the MD degree in 1943. After three years of military service in the U.S. Army in the Pacific, he completed his internship at University Hospital in Baltimore, and his residency at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit. In 1950 he went as chief of pediatric cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic. From 1966 to 1975 he was Head of cardiovascular disease.

In 1958 he developed a systematic method for coronary angiography. They were a prerequisite for the successful implementation of the first bypass surgery by his colleagues at the Cleveland Clinic René Favaloro (1967).

In 1969 he received the Canada Gairdner International Award, the 1983 Lasker ~ DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award, and in 1978 he received the AMA Scientific Achievement Award. In 1973 he received the Ray C. Fish Award from the Texas Heart Institute. He was the first president of the Society for Cardiac Angiography.

He was married in 1942 and had four children.

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