2001: An artificial heart odyssey

2001: An artificial heart odyssey

 Louis E. Samuels Louis E. Samuels Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Louis E. Samuels was born and raised in New York, attending the U. of Rochester where he received his...
2001: An artificial heart odyssey

Look Again

    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...
2001: An artificial heart odyssey

Pioneer interview: Lyle D. Joyce, MD, PhD

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...