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Robert Bartlett (surgeon)
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<p>Robert Bartlett (born May 8, 1939) is an American physician and medical researcher who is credited with developing a lifesaving heart-lung technology known as <a href="/facts/Extracorporeal_membrane_oxygenation/RxxmXV8h">extracorporeal membrane oxygenation</a> (ECMO). He is an emeritus professor of surgery at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Michigan_Medical_School/ncGQI69z">University of Michigan Medical School</a>. </p>