The Texas Heart Institute is an independent, nonprofit organization that is improving cardiovascular health through trailblazing research, thought leadership, education, and patient care to forge a better future for those with cardiovascular disease—a future with an increased focus on preventive cardiology.
Located within the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas, [1][2][3] and founded in 1962 by renowned cardiac surgeon Dr. Denton A. Cooley, The Texas Heart Institute performed the first successful heart transplant and total artificial heart implant in the United States. Its physicians and surgeons remain recognized as worldwide leaders in the diagnosis and treatment of even the most complex cardiovascular conditions performing more than 118,800 open heart operations, 258,000 cardiac catheterizations, and 1,500 heart transplants, and The Texas Heart Institute at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center has been ranked among the top cardiovascular centers in the United States by U.S. News & World Report for more than 30 years.[4][5]
Today The Institute is led by Dr. Joseph G. Rogers, an internationally recognized cardiologist and highly published thought leader in heart transplantation and mechanically assisted circulation.
^Twenty-five Years of Excellence: A History of the Texas Heart Institute. Texas Heart Institute Foundation: 1989
TheTexasHeartInstitute is an independent, nonprofit organization that is improving cardiovascular health through trailblazing research, thought leadership...
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added the Gimbel Research Wing. Texas Woman's University Nursing Program began instruction. In 1962, theTexasHeartInstitute was chartered and became affiliated...
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on the team that performed one of the early heart transplants in the US in 1968 with doctors Michael E. DeBakey and Denton Cooley at theTexasHeart Institute...
include the Bradshaw Lecture from the Royal College of Physicians in 1988, a knighthood in the 1992 New Year Honours, theTexasHeartInstitute's Ray C...
Receives Texas HeartInstitute's Ray C. Fish Award for scientific achievement, contributions to cardiology". TexasHeartInstitute. Archived from the original...
Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen, the hospital relocated to theTexas Medical Center and opened a 300-bed facility in 1951. Heart surgeon Michael E. DeBakey...
Leriche Prize, International society of surgery, 1971. TheTexasHeartInstitute Medal and the Ray C Fish Award for Scientific Achievement in Cardiovascular...
Baylor College of Medicine, St. Luke's Hospital (Houston, Texas), and TheTexasHeartInstitute. Lamelas is fluent in English and Spanish. Lamelas completed...
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Decompensated Heart Failure". TexasHeartInstitute Journal. 36 (6): 510–20. PMC 2801958. PMID 20069075. Carol D Tamparo; Marcia A Lewis (2011). Diseases of the Human...
"Heart Surgery – What to Expect During Surgery | National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)". June 2022. "A Heart Surgery Overview - Texas Heart...
Institute, in honour of heart surgeon Denton Cooley. The founding president was Philip S. Chua. Livesay, James J. (2005). "The Cooley Society". Texas...
2022 – Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania Note: TexasHeartInstitute has been awarded the grant twice, in 2013 and 2017. In 2013...
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