Sarver Heart Center
Working 30 Years Toward Heart Disease Prevention
1986 - 2016
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First Leaders 1986-1991
Eugene Morkin, MD, PhD Director,
Cardiologist, Heart Muscle Scientist
Jack Copeland, MD Associate Director,
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Developing the building plans
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ABOR Approval July 10, 1986
World’s First Successful Artificial Heart Bridge to Transplant Surgery
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Focus Area: Heart Transplantation
Gordon Ewy, MD, Cardiologist, Resuscitation Research Scientist
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Director: 1991 - 2013
Kathryn Reed, MD, OBGYN, uses ultrasound to detect heart birth defects, 1989
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Focus Area: Congenital Heart Disease
Stanley Goldberg, MD, pediatric cardiologist leads study
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Focus Area: Congenital Heart Disease
UA chosen to test device in 1991
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Focus area: Congenital Heart Disease
Frank Marcus, MD, cardiologist credited with introducing radiofrequency energy for cardiac arrhythmia ablations
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Focus area: Arrhythmias
1986 - 2001
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First Office Building
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Building Development
2001
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Hippocrates Plaza
2001
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Dedication
Patients Carlos Ochoa and Joseph Thoman
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Ribbon Cutting
2001
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Sarver Family at Dedication
UA President Peter Likins, Dr. Jack Copeland, and UA College of Medicine Dean James Dalen
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Leadership at Dedication
Karl Kern, MD, and Ron Hilwig, DVM
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Faculty at Dedication
Ray Runyan, PhD and Paul Krieg, PhD
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Showing off new lab space
“This building will be the ‘heart,’ but this will always be a ‘center without walls’ with physician scientists throughout the campus and the state.”
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Gordon Ewy, MD, at Dedication
Basic Scientists 2001
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Basic scientists augmented the “center without walls.”
Check, Call, Compress
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Focus Area: Resuscitation Research
Medical Research Building Opens 2006
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Molecular Cardiovascular Research Program
Carol Gregorio, PhD, now Vice Dean for Innovation and Development at UA College of Medicine - Tucson
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Interim Director, 2013-2014
#BearDown and Check, Call, Compress
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CPR Education
Nancy K. Sweitzer, MD, PhD Advanced Heart Disease Cardiologist
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Director 2014 - Present
Carol Gregorio, PhD, leads community tour
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Molecular Cardiovascular Research Program
Continuing advances in cellular regulation of the heart - 2015 and beyond
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Molecular Cardiovascular Research Program
Jen Cook, MD, Rich Smith and Ed Betterton at AHA Science Sessions 2015
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Focus Area: Advanced Heart Disease, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Pulmonary Hypertension and Heart Transplant
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Focus Area: Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation
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Focus Area: Precision Cardiovascular Therapies
Become part of the Cardiac Biorepository! Just 3 tablespoons of blood helps advance research.
2016 and Beyond - Edna Silva, RN, Charles Katzenberg, MD, and Christy Wilson, RD
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Focus Area: Cardiovascular Health and Wellness
Minority Outreach Coalition in Action - 2016 and Beyond
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Focus Area: Health Disparities
Working to ensure future generations will have the knowledge and care to prevent heart disease.
2016 and Beyond
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