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  William Castle DeVries Biography / Biography of William Castle DeVries Main Biography
William DeVries (born 1943) performed the first artificial heart transplant on a human patient.
William DeVries and his surgical team at the University of Utah Medical Center made medical history and national headlines on 2 December 1982, when they replaced the diseased heart of Barney Clark with the Jarvik-7, the first permanent artificial heart ever used for a human patient.
William DeVries was the son of a physician and a nurse.
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The actions taken by Dr. Robert Jarvik and Dr. William DeVries were a clear breech of that professional tradition causing criticism from their peers, who claimed the event was turned into a “circus” [2].
DeVries defended his actions claiming that since research is supported by the public, “The question is no longer whether physicians will cooperate with the press, but when, how, and to what degree” [2].
DeVries and the other physicians defended their work claiming that the Jarvik-7 was the patients’ “only alternative and that human use of the device was a “necessary experimental step” [5].
www.pitt.edu /~lmh29/event.html   (3372 words)

  
 Defend America News - Profile - Dr. William C. DeVries, Surgeon
DeVries was "a sole surviving son" in military terms, but he didn't know it until he tried to join the military during the Vietnam War.
DeVries said he was amazed by the hostility the veterans still harbored toward their enemy.
DeVries was one of several guest speakers, as was a general from the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
www.defendamerica.gov /profiles/aug2002/pr081302a.html   (2382 words)

  
 devrie041000
Dr. William DeVries, at one time the most famous heart surgeon in the world, was diagnosed with an arrhythmia that leaves him lightheaded.
In 1982, before he was 40, DeVries removed the heart of Seattle dentist Barney Clark and replaced it with the mechanical Jarvik-7.
DeVries eventually would move to Kentucky and continue experimental implants at the Humana Heart Institute International in Louisville.
www.kypost.com /news/2000/devrie041000.html   (304 words)

  
 Renowned surgeon joins Walter Reed family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
William DeVries thrilled the medical world when he successfully implanted the Jarvik-7 artificial heart into Seattle dentist Barney Clark at the University of Utah School of Medicine in 1982.
DeVries became "fascinated" with the artificial heart in the mid-1960s while attending the University of Utah School of Medicine.
DeVries moved to Louisville, Ky., in 1984 and continued research and development of the artificial heart.
www.dcmilitary.com /army/stripe/6_04/local_news/4504-1.html   (792 words)

  
 Quest for artificial device has been full of contention, drama   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
But in 1982, Dr. William DeVries, in cooperation with Jarvik, implanted the Jarvik-7 heart into the chest of 61-year-old Barney Clark, a Seattle dentist dying of heart failure.
By the time DeVries had opened the chest and Clark had been hooked up to the heart-lung machine, Clark's heart was useless.
DeVries ultimately took the heart with him to the newly opened Humana Heart Institute in Louisville, Ky., where he implanted three more such hearts.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/metropolitan/heart/heart-history.3-0.html   (1331 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Artificial heart comes with huge consequences   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
DeVries cautioned that it's much too soon to see the future of the artificial heart with any degree of certainty.
DeVries also said that if the artificial heart is successful, it will raise ethical questions — will it be exclusively for those covered by insurance, or will it also be implanted in uninsured people who need it?
Several medical ethicists said, however, that the main question at this early stage is informed consent, or making as sure as possible that patients and their families are told about and understand the risks as well as the possible benefits of the surgery.
www.usatoday.com /news/health/2001-07-03-heart-analysis.htm   (763 words)

  
 TEN YEARS AFTER BARNEY CLARK: REGISTRY AND TABULATIONS OF CLlNICAL PROGRESS WITH THE ARTIFICIAL HEART SINCE 1982
The historic T AH implant of Dr. Barney Clark in 1982 was performed by Dr. William DeVries at the University of Utah.
DeVries later implanted another Jarvik-'f TAH in William Shroeder in 1984 in Louisville, Kentucky.
DeVries WL, Anderson JL, Joyce LD, Anderson FL, Hammond EH, Jarvik RK, Kolff WJ.
www.lib.utah.edu /epubs/undergrad/vol3/mortimer.html   (2316 words)

  
 70 Wn.2d 296, ALBERT C. SHIELDS et al., Respondents, v. WILLIAM DEVRIES et al., Appellants
It was intended that the buyers would sell the merchandise then on the truck, but they were obligated to restock said truck with goods and merchandise of equivalent or greater value, thus always keeping on hand a stock of goods and merchandise equivalent in value to that which had been received with the truck.
The contract, as approved by him, carried the promise of the company along with that of the seller (William DeVries, Jr.) not to sell goods to any operator of a William DeVries truck who was attempting to make any sales on the route sold to the plaintiffs.
The $2,000 judgment is set aside and the cause remanded for the entry of a judgment for nominal damages, i.e., somewhere between $1 and $25.
www.mrsc.org /mc/courts/supreme/070wn2d/070wn2d0296.htm   (1915 words)

  
 ASH News
George Thomas DeVries, III, of Rancho Santa Fe, CA, is Chairman, President, CEO and co-founder of American Specialty Health and its subsidiaries, American Specialty Health Plans, American Specialty Health Networks, and American Specialty Health and Wellness.
DeVries has published a number of articles and has lectured on alternative health care in managed care and third-party reimbursement.
Dr. William R. Fair, M.D., of Long Boat Key, FL, was, until recently, the Florence and Theodore Baumritter/Enid Ancell Chair of Urology, and was Chief of the Urology Service at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.
www.ashcompanies.com /News/Default.aspx?y=2000&a=102   (1563 words)

  
 Officer, The: Uncle Sam recruits world-renowned heart surgeon - Reservists in Action   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Like his father before him (a father he never knew), DeVries decided to serve in the armed forces.
On 29 December 2000, DeVries was commissioned as a lieutenant colonel.
This is where the father--son story would have ended if DeVries hadn't gone golfing two years ago with Army MG Evan Gaddis, then commander of the Army's recruiting command.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0IBY/is_9_78/ai_94769565   (1592 words)

  
 Finding Aids -- Stoney, William Shannon
William S. Stoney, a cardio-thoracic surgeon on the staff of Vanderbilt University Medical School conceived the idea of creating this collection and he personally conducted the interviews.
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
William Shannon Stoney received his B.S. from the University of the South in 1950 and his M.D. from Vanderbilt University in 1954.After completing his surgical residency at Vanderbilt University Hospital, 1954--1962, he spent a year in Leeds, England as Senior Registrar, Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The General Infirmary, Leeds, England, 1i962-1963.
www.mc.vanderbilt.edu /sc_diglib/archColl/241.html   (276 words)

  
 all things William   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of Error.
Humility is indeed beatness, a compulsory virtue that no one exhibits unless he has to.
It becomes a creature, a depending and borrowed being, that lives not of itself, but breathes in another's air, with another's breath, and is accountable for every moment of time.
allthingswilliam.com /humility.html   (806 words)

  
 May 11 - Today in Science History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The first such device was surgically implanted into a patient by William C. DeVries on 2 Dec 1982.
As successor to his father, Sir William Herschel, he discovered another 525 nebulae and clusters.
John Herschel was a pioneer in celestial photography, and as a chemist contributed to the development of sensitized photographic paper (independently of Talbot).
www.todayinsci.com /5/5_11.htm   (2546 words)

  
 Ogden Weber Chamber of Commerce
Ogden native William DeVries made medical history December 2, 11982 when he implanted a plastic-aluminum heart in the chest of Seattle dentist Barney Clark at the University of Utah Medical Center.
For them, he will always be the soft-spoken prankster who played a major role in trying to set a record for stacking classmates in a toilet stall.
DeVries was born in Brooklyn N.Y. where his mother was while her husband served as a physician aboard a destroyer in World War II.
www.echamber.cc /ogdensfameandfamous.html   (2210 words)

  
 Metro/Region::Obituaries   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
He is survived by his wife, Blanche DeVries of Navarre, Fla.; daughter, Teresa L. Satterfield of Hixson; granddaughter, Holly Marie Satterfield; brothers, Jerry DeVries of Flintstone, Ga., and William "Bill" DeVries of Chattanooga; and several nieces and nephews.
She is survived by her husband, William "Bill" Foster, to whom she was a devoted wife of for 58 years; son and daughter-in-law, Richard "Rick" and Joyce Foster, Harrison; son and daughter-in-law, Kenneth "Kenny" and Denise Foster, Harrison ; and grandchildren, Patricia Norman of Cleveland, Tenn., Jake, Luke and Zack Foster, Harrison.
She was preceded in death by a sister, Jessie Anne; and two brothers, William T. "Dub" Bales Jr., and E. Bales, former sports editor of the Chattanooga Free Press.
epaper.ardemgaz.com /WebChannel/ShowStory.asp?Path=ChatTFPress/2004/09/27&ID=Ar01000   (3935 words)

  
 Spin - 071201 - Rypien; DeVries; Floyd
Lions DL Jared DeVries is undergoing tests for a possible blood clot.
The problem showed up in DeVries' left arm about two weeks ago and it's not known how his status will be affected for training camp or the upcoming season, team president Matt Millen said Tuesday.
It could be a major thing, however, for DeVries, and he’s a good, solid young man and hard worker with all the intangibles.
archive.profootballweekly.com /content/archives2001/features_2001/spin_071201.asp   (710 words)

  
 Nat' Academies Press, The Artificial Heart: Prototypes, Policies, and Patients (1991)
William DeVries implants the Jarvik-7 artificial heart into Barney Clark, a patient with end-stage cardiomyopathy, under an investigational device exemption granted by FDA that permits use of the artificial heart in patients unable to come off a heart-lung machine or in patients with chronic degenerative heart disease.
In February, responding to requests from the scientific community and others, William DeVries and colleagues publish several articles in theJournal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) that detail the medical history of each of the four total artificial heart implants that he performed.
NHLBI Director Claude Lenfant states that the decisive factors behind the suspension of funding are that implantable LVADs are nearly ready for human testing and that NHLBI does not have sufficient funding to support both human testing of LVADs and continued development of the TAH.
www.nap.edu /books/0309045320/html/209.html   (711 words)

  
 Lee_D   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Gertie DeVries, mother of Fred, Harmon and William DeVries of Salem, died yesterday morning in Portland.
DeVries was born in East Friesland, Germany, December 17, 1847, and in the spring of 1877 was married to Hermann DeVries, who died in November, 1920.
Surviving are widower Wendell; daughter Jeanette Brown, sons Steven and Allen, all Salem; father William Trogdon of California, mother Florence Benedict, Seattle; grandmother Mabel Church of California; one sister and one grandchild.
www.oregonpioneers.com /marion/Lee_D.html   (9127 words)

  
 Time: High spirits on a plastic pulse; Schroeder's joviality and fast recovery astound his doctors. (artificial heart ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The metal-and-plastic heart whirred and clicked in an eerie, mechanical rhytm as Dr. William DeVries, 40, removed the tracheal tube from his patient's throat.
For the first time since his artificial heart had been implanted about 36 hours earlier, William Schroeder, 52, could breathe on his own and speak.
Replied Schroeder: "I'd like a beer." It was, DeVries admitted afterward, one of the high points of the tension-filled hours following his second successful attempt to implant an artificial heart.
highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:3555641&refid=ip_almanac_hf   (231 words)

  
 Robert Jarvik   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Soon though my father had to go in for open heart surgery and I suddenly became very interested in medicine.
William J. Kolff helped me designed the heart.
Dr. William Devries was the first sugeon to implant my invention.
www.northstar.k12.ak.us /schools/ryn/projects/inventors/jarvik/jarvik.html   (422 words)

  
 Body1 - Complete Source for Body & Health Information
Dr. William DeVries at the University of Utah Medical Center choose the procedure because Clark's failing health made him ineligible to receive a donated human heart.
While Barney Clark was able to survive nearly four months, he was confined to his hospital bed because tubes from the Jarvik 7 were connected to an air-driven pump by way of tubes through Clark's chest.
William Schroeder survived the longest with the Jarvik 7: 20 months
www.body1.com /news/index.cfm/5/5   (275 words)

  
 PBS - Scientific American Frontiers:Affairs of the Heart:Searching for a Substitute
Nearly twenty years would pass before another artificial heart recipient would inspire hope among doctors and the general public alike.
In 1982, Dr. William DeVries of the University of Utah implanted a 61 year-old-dentist named Barney Clark with an artificial heart called Jarvik 7.
Since Clark was too sick to be eligible for a donated heart, Clark's implant would be permanent.
www.pbs.org /saf/1104/features/substitute2.htm   (206 words)

  
 Printable version - Keeping a Finger on the Pulse
William DeVries implanted the first Jarvik-7, a device developed by Drs.
Clinical evaluations of the Jarvik-7 began in 1982, when this artificial heart was placed in dentist Barney Clark at the University of Utah.
The longest survivor was William Schroeder, who was supported by the Jarvik-7 for 620 days.
www.apologeticspress.org /articles/print/2067   (668 words)

  
 Beaverdam Cemetery
DeVries, Jan, b.Neth., d.20 Jan.1892 Zeeland, age 75 yrs., 11 mo.; (OCDR) (NS).
of Ed and Minnie (DeVries) Kloosterman, OSSW Harold.
Hop, William, b.1845 Neth., d.30 Jul.1923, age 78 yrs.
www.macatawa.org /~devries/Beaverdam.html   (9391 words)

  
 DeVries Family
Most of the following research was done by Henry DeVries of Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Children of JOE DEVRIES and MARION LOUISE GERLOFS are: All born at Kalamazoo, Kalamazoo County, Michigan.
According to family legend he left his wife, Etta Moorlach- DeVries, daughter, Jantje, Jennie, DeVries-Hoffenkamp and family, Son John DeVries and family and ran away to Grand Rapids.
www.macatawa.org /~devries/devries.html   (565 words)

  
 U.S. Scouting Service Project: BSA FAMOUS SCOUTS
We mourn the loss of the brave crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia and ask that you keep their families in your prayers.
All four of the American men of the Space Shuttle Columbia were involved in Scouting in their youth, with pilot William McCool achieving the rank of Eagle Scout.
CDR William McCool, USN - Astronaut, Pilot of U.S. Space Shuttle Columbia.
www.usscouts.org /usscouts/eagle/bsfamous.html   (1167 words)

  
 WorldPAC Library Catalog
Detmer, William M. Dettenmeier, Patricia A. Detwiler, Susan M., ed.
DeVries, William C. DeWeese, David D. (David Downs), 1913.
edited by William J. Hoskins, Carlos A. Perez, Robert C. Yo...
www.cdrewu.edu /library/eng/index/a000005.htm   (1659 words)

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