2007 Recipient Profile
Surgeon-in-Chief and President Emeritus, founder of the Texas Heart Institute in 1962, Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Consultant in Cardiovascular Surgery at Texas Children’s Hospital, and Clinical Professor of Surgery at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston
View VideoDr. Cooley is a world-renowned surgeon who has pioneered many techniques used in cardiovascular surgery. He performed the first successful human heart transplant in the United States in 1968 and in 1969 became the first heart surgeon to implant an artificial heart in a man. Cooley and his associates have performed more than 100,000 open heart operations – more than any other group in the world.
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