Denton Cooley
Surgeon
1920 –
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Who is Denton Cooley?
Denton Arthur Cooley 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, chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, 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.
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- Born
- Aug 22, 1920
Houston - Also known as
- Denton Arthur Cooley
- Denton A Cooley
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Johns Hopkins University
- University of Texas at Austin
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
- University of Texas Medical Branch
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on July 23, 2013
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