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The practice and training facility of the UT men's and women's basketball teams, the Denton A. Cooley Pavilion, which opened in 2003, was named in his honor. [18] [19] Among his other outside interests, Cooley played upright bass in a swing band called The Heartbeats from 1965 through the early 1970s. [20]
The Cooley Society, also known as The Denton A. Cooley Surgical Society, was formed in 1972 by cardiovascular surgeons and fellows of The Texas Heart Institute, in honour of heart surgeon Denton Cooley. [1] [2] [3] The founding president was Philip S. Chua. [4]
The Denton A. Cooley Pavilion (or Cooley Pavilion) is the practice and training facility serving the men's and women's basketball teams of The University of Texas at Austin. The facility is named for Dr. Denton A. Cooley , a UT alumnus, basketball letterman (1939–41), and pioneering heart surgeon.
Denton Cooley: Heart and Cardiothoracic Surgeon & Founder and Surgeon-In-Chief of The Texas Heart Institute who performed the first Artificial Heart Implantation [43] Tennessee Ernie Ford: Country and Western Singer [43] Héctor García: Physician, World War II Veteran, Civil Rights Advocate & Founder of the American GI Forum [43] Andrew Goodpaster
Stone Heart Syndrome was first identified by Denton Cooley in 1972. It is a rare cardiac condition that initially puzzled medical experts. Primarily observed in patients undergoing heart surgery or experiencing severe heart attacks, this syndrome is characterized by a stress response in the heart muscle. While precise prevalence data are ...
Album cover photo of The Heartbeats. The Heartbeats, formerly The Heartstrings and later the Jazz Medics, is a big band made up of medical doctors.. In 1965, Dr. Denton A. Cooley and Dr. Grady L. Hallman, both of the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, Texas, started a band made up of doctors. [1]
During the early 1960s, American heart surgeon Denton Cooley successfully performed numerous bloodless open-heart surgeries on Jehovah's Witness patients. Fifteen years later, he and his associate published a report of more than 500 cardiac surgeries in this population, documenting that cardiac surgery could be safely performed without blood transfusion.
Michael Ellis DeBakey (September 7, 1908 – July 11, 2008) was an American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. [1]