Biography of ake senning
Åke Senning was..
Åke Senning
Swedish surgeon
Åke Senning (14 December 1915 in Rättvik, Sweden – 21 July 2000 in Zurich, Switzerland) was a Swedish cardiac surgeon who worked at University Hospital of Zürich from 1961 until his retirement in 1985.
Åke Senning was born in in Raettvik, Swe- den.Biography
Åke Senning was born to the Swedish veterinarian David Senning and the nurse Elly Senning, née Säfström. He finished his schooling in Uppsala with the baccalaureate. He actually wanted to become an engineer.
However, as a nurse in World War 1, his mother persuaded him to study medicine. He subsequently completed the pre-clinical part of his studies in Uppsala, the clinical part and his state examination in Stockholm in 1948.
Åke Senning was a Swedish cardiac surgeon who worked at University Hospital of Zürich from until his retirement in Åke Senning, Swedish heart.
His subsequent further training in Stockholm included general surgery, orthopaedics and thoracic and neurosurgery.
Clarence Crafoord introduced him to the field of cardiac surgery in 1948. The influence of this eminent surgeon, who had a major impact on thoracic and cardiac surgery, sparked Senning's lov