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[1] [2] [3] In 2010, in its annual survey of “America's Best Hospitals,” U.S. News & World Report ranked the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital number 4 in the United States for heart care, making this its 20th consecutive year as one of the top 10 heart centers in the country. [4] [5]
James Thornton Willerson (November 16, 1939 – September 16, 2020) was an American cardiologist. He was the President Emeritus, Director of Cardiology Research, and Co-Director of the Cullen Cardiovascular Research Laboratories at the Texas Heart Institute.
The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute at Houston added the Gimbel Research Wing. Texas Woman's University Nursing Program began instruction. In 1962, the Texas Heart Institute was chartered and became affiliated with Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center (known then as St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital) and Texas Children's ...
Texas Heart Institute performed its 1,000th heart transplant in 2006 and its 1,000th carotid artery stent procedure for stroke prevention in 2012. [ 30 ] [ 31 ] In 2010, researchers pioneered a breakthrough technique for turning ordinary human skin cells into early-stage heart cells. [ 32 ]
On March 13, 1972, the Denton A. Cooley Cardiovascular Surgical Society was founded at the Texas Heart Institute by the Residents and Fellows of Cooley to honor him. Founding President Philip S. Chua had envisioned this exclusive society to foster academic, professional, and personal camaraderie among cardiac surgeons in the United States and ...
"Thirty-five years of mechanical circulatory support at the Texas Heart Institute: an updated overview". Tex Heart Inst J. 32 (2): 168– 77. PMC 1163464. PMID 16107108. Frazier, O.H. (2014). "Mechanical circulatory assist device development at the Texas Heart Institute: A personal perspective". The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
The institute expanded to establish the nation's first outpatient cardiac catheterization laboratory in 1979 and the world's first school of cardiac ultrasound in 1982. [ 4 ] In 1998, Diethrich founded the Abrazo Arizona Heart Hospital and served as its medical director and Chief of Cardiovascular and Endovascular Surgery from 1998 to 2010.
Charles E. Mullins (January 15, 1932 – November 17, 2024) was an American pediatric cardiologist who practiced at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital. He is known for advancing cardiac catheterization techniques to treat congenital heart defects, and has been referred to as the father of modern interventional pediatric ...