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Marius Stephanus Barnard (3 November 1927 – 14 November 2014) was a South African cardiac surgeon and inventor of critical illness insurance. [2] [3] Barnard was a member of the team headed by his brother Christiaan Barnard that performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplantation in 1967. [4]
Dr. Barnard helped create the world's first critical illness insurance policy in 1983 and promoted it globally. He was also a heart surgeon who assisted his brother in the first successful heart transplant in 1967.
In 1983, along with the help of a South African insurance company called Crusader Life, Dr. Marius Barnard introduced critical illness insurance to the market. As a medical consultant to Crusader Life, he helped flesh out the definitions of the critical illnesses, which still stand today.
Oct 31, 2008 · Dr. Marius Barnard assisted his brother Christian Barnard in performing the first successful human heart transplant and was the driving force behind the development of Critical Illness...
Nov 11, 2021 · Marius Stephanus Barnard was a South African cardiac surgeon and inventor of critical illness insurance. Barnard was a member of the team headed by his brother Christiaan Barnard that...
Dec 5, 2014 · Dr Marius Barnard, brother of Christiaan Barnard and who assisted in the historic first human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital on December 3, 1967, died almost to the date, 47 years later, on Friday December 5 in Hermanus, South Africa after a long battle with prostate cancer.
At the age of 79, the architect of critical-illness insurance, Dr Marius Barnard, is inexhaustible in his crusade to close the protection gap. The South African heart surgeon, who helped his older brother Christiaan perform the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant in 1967, is a technical consultant with Scottish Widows.
