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Three men pose together at a reception, with balloons, refreshments and trays of food behind them. The center man wears a “Heart Hero” button and a name badge; the caption identifies him as Jimmy Moore, with surgeons Walter Merrill, MD, on the left, and William Frist, MD, on the right.
Bonnie Davis stands in a medical examination room with physicians Tom DiSalvo and Walter Merrill, who wear white coats.
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Masked woman exercising on a treadmill in a gym, wearing a white shirt with a heart-shaped organ-donor message.

Jimmy Moore, VUMC’s longest living heart transplant recipient (1986), recently reunited with surgeons Walter Merrill, MD, left, and William Frist, MD.

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