The Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences
University of OxfordAlf Gunning 21st November 1918 - 10th August 2011
Alfred Gunning was a remarkable surgeon best known for his work on tissue heart valves
During his career Alfred Gunning worked as a Cardiothoracic Surgeon at the Nuffield Department of Surgical Sciences and then at the Churchill Hospital.
It is fair to say that much of the innovative work performed during the Phillip Allison era can be credited to Alf Gunning, Allison's First Assistance. Gunning and Allison pioneered heart valve homografts and pig xenografts, techniques subsequently used in many centres round the world.
Gunning was a founding Common Room Member of Green College (now Green Templeton College) in 1979. He was a man of great energy, playing squash at the College until 84 years of age.
