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Denton Cooley

Born

in Houston, Texas, The United States

August 22, 1920

Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denton_Cooley

Genre

Science, Surgery, Nonfiction

Influences

Johns Hopkins, Russell Brock, Michael E. DeBakey, Domingo Liotta, René ...more

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Denton Arthur Cooley (born August 22, 1920) is an American heart surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Cooley is also founder and surgeon in-chief of The Texas Heart Institute, consultant in Cardiovascular Surgery at Texas Children's Hospital, and a clinical professor of Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Cooley graduated in 1941 from the University of Texas, where he majored in zoology. He became interested in surgery through several pre-med classes he attended in college and began his medical education at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He completed his medical degree and his surgical training at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltim ...more

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Average rating: 4.14 · 118 ratings · 14 reviews · 18 distinct works • Similar authors

	100,000 Hearts: A Surgeon's Memoir 4.17 avg rating — 89 ratings — published 2012 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Digestion and Nutrition by Robert J. Sullivan (Goodreads Author), Denton Cooley (Introduction) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2004 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eat Smart for a Healthy Heart Cookbook by Denton Cooley, Carolyn E. Moore 3.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1987 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Human Body: How It Works Set, 5-Volumes 3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reflections and Observations: Essays of Denton A. Cooley : Collected by Marianne Kneipp it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1984 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Techniques in Cardiac Surgery 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1984 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Techniques in vascular surgery 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	How I Do It: Techniques For Treating Cardiovascular Disease (DISCONTINUED 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1990	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Your Body: How It Works Set by Denton Cooley, Susan Whittemore, Douglas B. Light 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Surgical Treatment of Aortic Aneurysms 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I've always felt that I did well as a student because I lacked confidence.”
― Denton Cooley

tags: confidence, science, student, success

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“Of the many 'firsts' with which I have been involved at the Texas Heart Institute —including the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first total artificial heart transplant in the world—the achievement that may have the greatest impact on health care did not occur in the operating room or in the research laboratory. It happened on a piece of paper... when we created the first-ever packaged pricing plan for cardiovascular surgical procedures.”
― Denton Cooley

tags: achievement, artificial-heart, cardiovascular-surgery, doctor, firsts, health-care, heart-transplant, laboratory, medicine, operating-room, price, research, science, surgery, united-states

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