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	Denton A. Cooley, M.D., Founder, President, and Surgeon-in-Chief of the Texas Heart Institute.
		Denton A. Cooley, M.D., Founder, President, and Surgeon-in-Chief of the Texas Heart Institute.
		Denton A. Cooley, MD, founder, president and surgeon-in-chief of the Texas Heart Institute, is a world-renowned surgeon, having pioneered many techniques used in cardiovascular surgery today.
		Cooley is a 1998 recipient of the nation's highest honor for technological innovation, the National Medal of Technology, presented by President Clinton.
	www.texheartsurgeons.com /DACooleyBio.htm (343 words)

	Denton Cooley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Denton Cooley was born and raised in Houston, Texas.
		Cooley attended the University of Texas and majored in zoology.
		Cooley obtained his M.D. degree in 1944, and remained at Hopkins as an intern, assisting Dr. Alfred Blalock in the first "blue baby" operation, to correct an infant's congenital heart defect.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Denton_Cooley (597 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: COOLEY, DANIEL DENTON
		Daniel Denton Cooley, real estate developer and prominent Houston businessman, known as the "Father of Houston Heights" in Harris County, the son of Robert William and Eliza Maria (Stone) Cooley, was born on April 15, 1850, probably in Pennsylvania.
		Cooley played a key role in establishing the school, and he was one of only two living persons in the city for whom a school had been named.
		Cooley died in Houston Heights on November 22, 1933, and was buried in Glenwood Cemetery.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/CC/fcomd.html (613 words)

	Cooley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dennis Cooley (born 1944), Canadian poet, professor at the University of Manitoba
		Denton Cooley (born 1920), American physician and heart surgeon
		Cattle Raid of Cooley, central tale in the Ulster Cycle of Irish mythology
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cooley (224 words)

	Denton Cooley Biography -- Academy of Achievement
		Denton Cooley was born and raised in Houston, Texas.
		Cooley's fame spread throughout the 1960s as he applied his extraordinary dexterity to delicate surgery on the hearts of infants with congenital heart disease.
		Cooley emphatically denied the first charge, and asserted that the patient's permission was adequate justification to attempt the operation.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/coo0bio-1 (1195 words)

	artificial heart on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Denton Cooley, a pioneer in artificial hearts, shows an Akutsu III, the second type of artificial heart used in a human, at the museum of the Texas Heart Institute in Houston.
		Denton Cooley, a pioneer in artificial hearts, tours the museum of the Texas Heart Institute in Houston.
		Denton Cooley, a pioneer in artificial hearts, tours the museumof the Texas Heart Institute in Houston.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-artifH1rt.asp (752 words)

	England's Royal College of Surgeons Honors Denton A. Cooley, M.D.
		The Cardiac section of the expanded museum was named in honor of Dr. Cooley "who embodies the Hunterian qualities of innovation and excellenceand whose team at the Texas Heart Institute is internationally acclaimed." Dr. Cooley donated a second generation artificial heart which he used in 1981 as a bridge to cardiac transplantation.
		Cooley and his wife attended a dinner in their honor at the House of Lords.
		Denton A. Cooley, MD, founded the Texas Heart Institute in 1962 for the study and treatment of diseases of the heart and blood vessels.
	www.bcm.edu /tmc/thi/dac2-05.html (575 words)

	Denton Cooley Interview -- Academy of Achievement
		Denton Cooley: I think I was a curious child.
		Denton Cooley: I was determined to make good grades.
		Denton Cooley: I was a varsity basketball player for four years at the University of Texas.
	www.achievement.org /autodoc/page/coo0int-1 (1251 words)

	UTMB News Release: DENTON A. COOLEY FOUNDATION COMMITS $250,000 TO ESTABLISH DISTINGUISHED PROFESSORSHIP AT UTMB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		DENTON A. GALVESTON, Texas-Dr. Denton A. Cooley, the world-renowned Houston heart surgeon, recently committed $250,000 to the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB) to establish a distinguished professorship in the academic health center’s Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
		Cooley, who attended UTMB in the 1940s for the first two years of his medical education, created the Denton A. Cooley, M.D. Distinguished Professorship in Surgery with a grant from the Denton A. Cooley Foundation.
		Cooley, recognizing the need to significantly expand heart disease research and education, founded the Texas Heart Institute in 1962 in Houston’s Texas Medical Center and serves as the institute’s president and surgeon-in-chief.
	www.utmb.edu /newsroom/02pr/sept02/Cooley.htm (630 words)

	TxTell: Denton Cooley
		Cooley didn't know at the time that he was witnessing an historic development in cardiovascular surgery, but he caught on quickly.
		Cooley is also 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 Medical School in Houston.
		The Denton A. Cooley Foundation has funded two professorships at UT Austin and a varsity basketball scholarship honoring the surgeon and his family.
	txtell.lib.utexas.edu /stories/c0005-full.html (698 words)

	The Denton A. Cooley Building - A Tour of What’s to Come
		On the B1 level is the Robert J. Hall Conference Center which includes the Denton A. Cooley Auditorium, a large pre-function area, and the Evelyn Meadows Acton Telemedicine Center.
		The Cooley Auditorium is the largest auditorium in the Texas Medical Center as well as one of the country's largest in a medical environment outside of the East coast.
		Outside the auditorium on the B1 level is a large prefunction area, notable for a sweeping staircase from the entry level, encased in a curving wall of birdseye maple.
	www.bcm.edu /tmc/thi/cupdate.html (2006 words)

	History - Texas Heart Institute - About Us
		Denton A. Cooley made a decision of great importance that would benefit people throughout the state of Texas, across the United States and around the world.
		Death rates from cardiovascular disease declined 15 percent from 1989 to 1999 and 12.6 million people who have a history of heart attack, chest pain or both are alive today.
		Denton A. Cooley, MD Yet, cardiovascular disease is still the nation's leading cause of death, claiming a life every 33 seconds, 2,600 lives each day and nearly one million lives each year.
	texasheart.org /AboutUs/History (462 words)

	American Experience \| Partners of the Heart \| Legacy
		Denton A. Cooley grew up in Houston, Texas and studied at the University of Texas at Austin before pursuing his M.D. at Johns Hopkins University.
		Cooley continued at Hopkins as intern and resident, and assisted Dr. Alfred Blalock in the first blue-baby operation in November 1944, which corrected a deadly heart defect.
		Cooley's reputation grew through his work on repairing damaged heart valves with artificial replacements, and his establishment of the Texas Heart Institute in 1962.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/partners/legacy/l_colleagues_cooley.html (332 words)

	The Tech \| Visit \| The National Medal of Technology \| Laureate Profile for Denton A. Cooley, M.D. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cooley decided to build a simpler heart-lung machine than the large, expensive models available in 1956.
		Cooley’s work saved lives and changed the course of technology for open-heart surgery.
		Denton A. Cooley, M.D. ; One can only imagine the excitement we felt when the clamps were released from the vessels, and the infant’s lips changed from the deep blue of cyanosis to a glorious pink.
	www.thetech.org /nmot/detail.cfm?ID=43&STORY=3& (252 words)

	Denton A. Cooley, M.D.
		Denton A. Cooley, M.D. Denton A. Cooley, M.D., president and surgeon-in-chief, founded the Texas Heart Institute in 1962.
		Cooley graduated from the University of Texas in 1941 with highest honors and earned his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1944.
		In 1969, he became the first heart surgeon to implant an artificial heart in man. Cooley and his associates have performed more than 100,000 open heart operations--more than any other group in the world.
	www.tmc.edu /thi/cooley.html (318 words)

	www.TexasSports.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Texas Basketball moves into its new home this season … the state-of-the-art Denton A. Cooley Pavilion, a two-level, 44,000-square foot facility.
		Cooley Pavilion is named for UT basketball letterman Dr. Denton Cooley (1939-41), who performed the first successful heart transplant in the United States (1968) and implanted the first totally artificial heart in a human (1969).
		The practice facility also includes a locker room with a players’ lounge, an instructional film theater, a 4,100-square foot strength and conditioning area, an athletic training and hydrotherapy area, an academic resource and activity center and a coaches’ lounge and locker room.
	www.texassports.com /mainpages/001_structure/facilitiespages/cooley_facil.html (125 words)

	The Tech \| Visit \| The National Medal of Technology \| Laureate Profile for Denton A. Cooley, M.D. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Denton Cooley helped save the lives of countless patients with heart disease.
		In more than 50 years as a heart surgeon, his many innovations made great strides against the leading cause of death in the U.S. Cooley constantly looked to improve the tools and techniques of surgery.
		In 1968, Cooley performed the first successful human heart transplant in the U.S. The next year, he was the first to implant an artificial heart in a patient awaiting a heart transplant.
	www.thetech.org /nmot/detail.cfm?ID=43&STORY=1& (215 words)

	Denton Cooley To Speak Sept. 24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The public is invited to hear Dr. Cooley whose visit is sponsored by the Executive Council of Health Organizations (ECHO) and the PreMedical Society, Texas AandM student organizations.
		Cooley, who pioneered many of the techniques used in cardiovascular surgery, performed the first successful human heart transplant in the United States and the first laser angioplasty procedure performed in the country.
		Cooley has received the Medal of Freedom and the Rene Leriche Prize, the highest honor of the International Surgical Society.
	www.tamu.edu /univrel/aggiedaily/news/stories/archive/091897-4.html (159 words)

	Third Endovascular Summit Attracts Cardiovascular Surgery Pioneer Denton A. Cooley, M.D.
		In 1969, he became the first heart surgeon to implant an artificial heart in a man. Cooley founded the Texas Heart Institute in 1962, for which he is now president and surgeon-in-chief.
		He is also a pioneer in the surgical treatment of aneurysms of the aorta and of carotid artery stenosis.
		Cooley is 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 Medical School at Houston.
	www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-27-2005/0003695815&EDATE= (276 words)

	Case Studies: Concrete Healthcare Buildings: Denton A. Cooley Building - St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Houston, ...
		Named in honor of the founder of the Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston, the Denton A. Cooley Building provides laboratory space for state-of-the-art research in gene therapy and heart transplants.
		This new 10-story, 312,000-square-foot facility houses a telemedicine center, 325-seat conference center, learning resource center, outpatient clinic, ten surgical suites, recovery rooms, and intensive care areas.
		In 2002, the facility was awarded the AON Build America Award as one of the best new building projects in the country.
	www.cement.org /buildings/buildings_healthcare_cooley.asp (402 words)

	Denton A. Cooley -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust!
		He implanted a mechanical heart made of silicone, which served as a substitute organ for 65 hours until a heart from a human donor was inserted to replace it.
		Cooley received an M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore (1944), and joined the medical faculty of Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, in 1954.
		In 1969 he left Baylor to found the Texas Heart Institute, of which he became surgeon in chief, and from 1975 he served also as professor of clinical surgery at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston.
	www.britannica.com /ebc/article-9026131 (633 words)

	DOME: The Cooley Center Gets into Shape (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		When the Denton A. Cooley Recreation Center opened in 1981, racquetball was king.
		Johns Hopkins Medicine Dean and CEO Edward Miller, who frequented the Cooley Center when he first arrived at Hopkins in 1994 but shifted to a more private venue in recent years to lift weights and walk the treadmill, thinks the $800,000 price-tag for the renovations has been well spent.
		He was introduced to the Cooley Center by a patient he knew, then was allowed to join because of his volunteer work.
	www.hopkinsmedicine.org /dome/0210/close_up.cfm (1131 words)

	Supporting Schools: Proud Products: Denton A. Cooley Biography
		A world-renowned surgeon, Denton A. Cooley has pioneered many techniques used in cardiovascular surgery.
		In 1969, he became the first heart surgeon to implant an artificial heart in a man.
		Cooley founded the Texas Heart Institute in 1962.
	www.tasb.org /schools/proud_products/denton_cooley.aspx?print=true (155 words)

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		Few physicians have earned as many accolades as Denton Cooley, MD, but one had eluded him during his 50-plus years as a physician.
		Cooley is a 1944 graduate of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
		During his decades of medical service, Dr. Cooley pioneered many cardiovascular surgery techniques, and is widely known for performing the first successful human heart transplant in the United States in 1968.
	www.texmed.org /Template.aspx?id=2921 (361 words)

	Denton A. Cooley, MD - Texas Heart Institute
		Denton A. Cooley, MD, president and surgeon-in-chief, founded the Texas Heart Institute in 1962.
		Cooley graduated from the University of Texas in 1941 with highest honors and earned his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1944.
		His numerous honors and awards include the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian award, the Rene Leriche Prize, the highest honor of the International Surgical Society, and the National Medal of Technology.
	www.texasheartinstitute.org /AboutUs/History/cooley.cfm (282 words)

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