by Center Admin | Aug 6, 2023 | News
We are pleased to announce the addition of the Terumo Collection to our Virtual Collections. The Akutsu and Kolff collection of artificial hearts is stored at Terumo Medical Corporation, Tokyo, Japan. Terumo is a global leader in medical technology and has been...
by Stephen R. Topaz | Mar 17, 2023 | Pioneer Editorials
Stephen R. Topaz After graduating from Purdue University with a degree in Mechanical Engineering, Mr.Topaz joined Dr. Willem Kolff’s lab at the Cleveland Clinic. Here, he helped design, build, and operate artificial hearts, developed the Intra-Aortic Balloon...
by John-Peder Escobar Kvitting, Bansi Koul, and Odd R. Geiran | Jul 7, 2022 | Pioneer Editorials
John-Peder Escobar Kvitting1,2 | Bansi Koul3 | Odd R. Geiran1,2 1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Oslo, Norway 2Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway 3Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Skåne...
by Jason J. Han | May 4, 2022 | Pioneer Editorials
Jason J. Han Lyle D. Joyce, MD, PhD is an adult cardiac surgeon who helped pioneer the artificial heart technology throughout his career. In 1982, he and Dr. William DeVries implanted Jarvik- 7 total artificial heart (TAH) in a patient named Barney Clark, which was...
by Jason J. Han | May 3, 2022 | Pioneer Editorials
Jason J. Han Muhammad M. Mohiuddin MBBS is currently a Professor of Surgery and the Director of the Cardiac Xenotransplantation Program at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Prior to joining the faculty there, he was the chief of the transplantation...
