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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]
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"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 ...
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 ...
Reardon received his medical education from Baylor College of Medicine where he graduated with honors in 1978. He received his general surgery residency at Baylor College of Medicine in 1983 working under Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, and completed a thoracic surgery fellowship training at Texas Heart Institute in 1985 under the tutelage of Dr. Denton Cooley.
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.