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by William C. Roberts (Author)
This two-volume series brings together 74 personal interviews with a variety of prominent cardiologists and cardiothoracic surgeons. These mini-biographies, published in The American Journal of Cardiology between 1996 and 2014, delve into these physicians' upbringing, professional life, and family life. They provide insights into the history of cardiology, as well as life in health care and life in the United States over the past century. Interviewees in volume 1 include Joseph Stephen Alpert, MD, George Allan Beller, MD, William Edward Boden, MD, Robert Ogden Bonow, MD, Eugene Braunwald, MD, Hollis Bryan Brewer, Jr., MD, Robert William ("Bobby") Brown, MD, Howard Bertram Burchell, MD, Robert McKinnon Califf, MD, William Peter Castelli, MD, Lawrence Sorel Cohen, MD, Lawrence Harvey Cohn, MD, Charles Richard Conti, MD, Denton Arthur Cooley, MD, David Kempton Cartwright Cooper, MD, Kenneth Hardy Cooper, MD, MPH, Michael Ellis DeBakey, MD, Anthony Nicholas Demaria, MD, Jesse Efrem Edwards, MD, Myrvin Harold Ellestad, MD, James Stuart Forrester III, MD, William Howard Frishman, MD, Edward David Frohlich, MD, Valentin Fuster, MD, PhD, Wallace Bruce Fye III, MD, MA, MACC, Arthur Garson, Jr., MD, MPH, Bernard John Gersh, MD, Paul A. Grayburn, MD, Joseph Cholmondeley Greenfield, MD, Lazar John Greenfield, MD, Scott Montgomery Grundy, MD, Donald Carey Harrison, MD, Watkins Proctor Harvey, MD, Harvey Stanley Hecht, MD, Leslie David Hillis, MD, Jeffrey Michael Isner, MD, Norman Mayer Kaplan, MD, Dean James Kereiakes, MD, Spencer Bidwell King III, MD, John Webster Kirklin, MD, and Peter Russell Kowey, MD. About the editor: William C. Roberts, MD, interviewer and editor, is executive director of the Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute of Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. He has served as editor in chief of The American Journal of Cardiology since 1982. His publications number over 1600.
