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Wallace Bruce Fye (born 1946) is an American retired cardiologist, medical historian, writer, bibliophile and philanthropist.He is emeritus professor of medicine and the history of medicine at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, and was the founding director of the institution's W. Bruce Fye Center for the History of Medicine.
Cardiology was still in its early years as a medical specialty, particularly in the United States, so other doctors throughout the Clinic often asked Willius to consult on their cases involving heart conditions. [13] In 1922, Willius was asked by Plummer, Will Mayo, and Charles Mayo to organize a new section at the Mayo Clinic: cardiology. [14]
He received the Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine Outstanding Mentorship Award in 2005. An Annual Tajik-Seward Echo Lectureship was established in 2006 by Mayo colleagues. Japanese Society of Echocardiography honored him by establishing the Annual A. Jamil Tajik Young Investigator Award in 2008.
Murray S. Hoffman, MD. Murray Stanley Hoffman (April 15, 1924 – March 23, 2018) was an American cardiologist, educator and diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Cardiovascular Disease, a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a member of the Council on Clinical Cardiology (CLCD) of the American Heart Association.
Harvey Feigenbaum (born 1933) is an American cardiologist known for his life-long work in the field of echocardiography. [3] He wrote the first textbook on the subject in 1972, which is currently in its 8th edition, and has published over 300 articles. [4]
Fredrick Arthur Willius (1888–1972), founder of the cardiology department at the Mayo Clinic and an early pioneer of electrocardiography; Louis Wolff (1898–1972), known for Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome; Karel Frederik Wenckebach (1864–1940), first described what is now called type I second-degree atrioventricular block in 1898
In 1957 he emigrated with his family to the United States and joined the staff of the Mayo Clinic, where he remained until his retirement in 1989. [ 3 ] From 1966 to 1974 he was a professor and the chair of the department of physiology and biophysics with a joint appointment at the Mayo Medical School (now named the Mayo Clinic Alix School of ...
In 1966, the magazine "Mayo Clinic Proceedings" has published the classification of the different forms: complete and incomplete, that the atrioventricular canal assumes. In the complete form there is the distinction of three subtypes of heart diseases: A,B or C according to the characteristics of the common anterior germ layer of the ...