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Denton Cooley

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American heart surgeon (1920-2016)

United StatesDoctorsLived 1920 to 2016 · aged 96
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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 Heart Institute, chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at clinical partner Baylor St.

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1998National Medal of Technology and Innovation
1984Presidential Medal of Freedom
1980Theodore Roosevelt Award
1970Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise
Commander of the Order of the Sun of Peru‎

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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 Heart Institute, chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at clinical partner Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, consultant in Cardiovascular Surgery at Texas Children's Hospital and a clinical professor of Surgery at McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.

Country
United States
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1920 to 2016 · aged 96
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