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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]
Dr. A. Jamil Tajik received his medical degree from King Edward Medical College Lahore, Pakistan in 1965 and completed Residency and Fellowship in Cardiology at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine. In 1972, he was appointed as a consultant in Cardiovascular Diseases at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN.
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.
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
Raymond Donald Pruitt (February 6, 1912 - January 14, 1993) was an American physician specializing in cardiology who was the founding dean of the Mayo Medical School.An alumnus of Baker University, he received his medical degree from the University of Kansas and was also a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford.
Mayo Clinic is a nonprofit hospital system with campuses in Rochester, Minnesota; Scottsdale and Phoenix, Arizona; and Jacksonville, Florida. [22] [23] Mayo Clinic employs 76,000 people, including more than 7,300 physicians and clinical residents and over 66,000 allied health staff, as of 2022. [5]
He was initially associated with the Mayo Clinic there and eventually became co-director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. [3] On the clinical and teaching front Rahimtoola remained an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Illinois and Chief of Cardiology, at Cook County Hospital from 1969 to 1972. [4]