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Bonnie Davis stands between physicians Tom DiSalvo and Walter Merrill in a hospital examination room.
September 17, 2015

Pioneering transplant patient readies for Heart Walk

In April 1986 Bonnie Davis of Mt. Pleasant, Tennessee, became the first female patient to receive a heart transplant at Vanderbilt University Hospital. On Oct. 3, she will return to campus to participate in the Greater Nashville Heart Walk.