Chris Barnard Collection Barnard, Christiaan Neethling Organ transplants Protection of Personal Information Act This large collection comprises: Section A: Heart surgery statistics and individual patients records on registration Section B: Correspondence sent to Dr Barnard at his professional address, dating from the late 1950s to 1992 Section C: Papers relating to Dr Barnard’s celebrity status Section D: Miscellaneous material Section A: The surgery statistics cover the period 1965-1977. There are some gaps, and the information is not full. Section B: The correspondence is sorted into: Medical correspondence, which is potential patients asking for treatment; correspondence with other doctors and specialists re specific patients; referrals; and some correspondence with past patients - African and overseas. Correspondence with sufferers of various diseases – these are categorised – asking advice. Many of these queries are outside the scope and expertise of Dr Barnard. Correspondence with professional bodies to which Dr Barnard belonged, in South Africa and USA; as well as that with colleagues – mainly about research into experimental methods and materials relating to heart surgery. Some professional articles and papers sent to him by colleagues are included. General correspondence, which includes letters of congratulation; requests for financial help, donations, photographs, autographs, sponsorship and invitations. There are also some private messages from personal friends, including Sophia Loren and Lyndon B Johnson. Section C: This section deals with CNB’s celebrity status, after his historic first heart transplant in 1967, and includes invitations to functions, correspondence, travel itineraries and memorabilia of visits, such as interview transcripts, photographs, newspaper clippings, awards and menus – one such being from the Variety Club of Israel 5th Anniversary Dinner in 1972, which he attended and which is inscribed by Golda Meir. CNB’s visits, from 1968 to 1979, cover South Africa and overseas. Section D: this miscellaneous material includes some documentation relating to the Porphyria and Renal Metabolic Research Group; some journals (mostly medical) and other publications – some in foreign languages. 1959-1992 90 archive boxes https://atom.lib.uct.ac.za/chris-barnard-collection BC1163 eng https://atom.lib.uct.ac.za/university-of-cape-town-libraries-special-collections University of Cape Town Libraries: Special Collections (Manuscripts and Archives) The collection is open for research. However access to files containing patient information or medical records will only be given in terms of the provisions of the Protection of Personal Information Act. This pertains to A1, A2 and B1.