Dr. Victor Parsonnet, a cardiac surgeon who performed New Jersey’s first successful heart and kidney transplant and was chairman of the New Jersey Symphony, has died.
Parsonnet was 100 when he died peacefully Dec. 23, his family told the symphony.
The former chief of surgery at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center, who worked in medicine for more than 60 years, also performed the state’s first permanent pacemaker implant in 1961 and first aortocoronary bypass surgery…