Dr. Margaret Billingham dies at 78; Stanford heart pathologist
Thursday, July 30, 2009 - 02:14
in Health & Medicine
Billingham developed a standardized scale for interpreting biopsy results in heart transplants to determine whether the transplant is thriving or being rejected. Dr. Margaret Billingham, a Stanford University pathologist who developed criteria by which surgeons could tell if a transplanted heart was thriving or being rejected, died of kidney cancer July 14 at Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital in Grass Valley, Calif. She...