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John Najarian was born in Oakland, Calif., in 1927, the son of Armenian immigrants. Leave a sympathy message to the family on the . The same year he operated on the 6-week-old baby, he operated on a woman of 62, at the time an advanced age for a transplant patient. Anyone can read what you share. Read more. Please accept our most heartfelt sympathies for your loss., In loving memory of Peter John Najarian, View The Obituary For John N. Najarian. "What a wonderful possibility to replace a diseased or injured or absent organ with a new one from someone else," he said. Though no longer head of surgery, Najarian went back to work doing transplants. Devoted father of Donna Samick and her husband Donald, Christine Najarian. After growing up in the Bay Area, he played college football as an offensive tackle for the University of California, Berkeley, joining the team in its 1949 Rose Bowl loss to Northwestern. [6] He did pioneering work in kidney transplantations in children during the 1970s,[7] developing the anti-rejection drug anti-lymphocyte globulin, in pediatric liver transplantation and in xenotransplantation of porcine Islets for Type I diabetes. John Najarian was born in Oakland, Calif., in 1927, the son of Armenian immigrants. Please let me express my deepest sympathy for the loss of your husband, Peter John Najarian. His father, Garabed, sold rugs, and his mother, Siran, was a homemaker. In 1995, following a series of investigative reports in the Star Tribune, Najarian was indicted on charges of fraud, theft and tax evasion related to allegations that under his watch, the Medical School had taken in millions in illegal profits from sales of ALG, which was unlicensed. Dad will be missed by not just his family, but by so many, Peter Najarian said. At trial in 1996, a judge dismissed six of the charges, and a jury acquitted him on the other 15. He didnt ever think about it. 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