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Cooley, Denton Arthur

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Cooley, Denton Arthur (1920– )

US surgeon. A pioneer in open-heart and heart-transplantation surgery, he founded the world-renowned Texas Heart Institute in Houston in 1962, where he became surgeon-in-chief.

He was born in Houston, Texas. He studied medicine at Johns Hopkins University, where he also did his surgical internship and residency 1944–50. He spent the next year in England at the Brompton Hospital for Chest Diseases. In 1951 he joined the Baylor University medical faculty and began performing heart surgery at Texas Children's and St Luke's Episcopal Hospitals.



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