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Warren Warwick

American pediatrician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ16886453 ↗
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Warren J. Warwick was an American pediatrician known for co-inventing a chest wall oscillation device called the Vest Airway Clearance System, or "The Vest", a mechanical vest for clearing the lungs of children with cystic fibrosis. He was a professor of pediatric pulmonology at the University of Minnesota, where he was a faculty member for over 50 years. He was the director of the Cystic Fibrosis Center at the University of Minnesota from 1962 to 1999.

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