William DeVries
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William Castle DeVries is an American cardiothoracic surgeon, mainly known for the first transplant of a TAH using the Jarvik-7 model.
DeVries in 2002
Jarvik-7 artificial heart
Denton Cooley
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Denton Arthur Cooley was an American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Cooley was also the founder and surgeon in-chief of The Texas Hear
William DeVries
…from doctor Keith Reemtsma, he decided to leave Salt Lake City and to start his residency in another hospital. That is also the year in which doctor Denton Cooley attempted his first artificial heart transplant in a patient, in Houston. Doctor Cooley's work would be an inspiration for doctor DeVries, who would…
Cooley with a medical student in March 2015
Dr. Samuel JK Abraham, Dr. Denton Cooley, Dr. K.M.Cherian at WSCTS, Hiroshima, Japan in 1996