Denton Cooley Net Worth

Denton Cooley was a pioneering American cardiologist who performed the world's first implantation of a total artificial heart. Growing up with an alcoholic father, Cooley found a mentor in Dr. Alfred Blalock at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, which helped him to become one of the 20th century's most renowned heart surgeons. His work caused a rift between him and his colleague, Michael DeBakey, but Cooley remains a devoted family man and enjoys playing golf in his free time.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Heart Surgeon
Birth Day August 22, 1920
Birth Place Houston, Texas, United States
Age 100 YEARS OLD
Died On November 18, 2016(2016-11-18) (aged 96)\nHouston, Texas
Birth Sign Virgo
Education University of Texas at Austin University of Texas Medical Branch Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Known for First clinical implantation of a total artificial heart
Profession Surgeon
Institutions St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital Texas Children's Hospital University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston

💰 Net worth: $40 Million (2024)

Denton Cooley, a highly renowned heart surgeon in the United States, is estimated to have a net worth of $40 million by 2024. Cooley has made significant contributions to the field of cardiac surgery, revolutionizing the treatment of heart diseases through his innovative techniques and groundbreaking surgeries. With a career spanning several decades, Cooley's expertise and commitment to patient care have earned him widespread recognition and financial success. His net worth reflects not only his significant wealth but also the profound impact he has had on advancing the field of cardiovascular medicine.

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Biography/Timeline

1920

Cooley was born in August 22, 1920 in Houston and graduated in 1941 from the University of Texas at Austin (UT), where he was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity and the Texas Cowboys, played on the basketball team, and majored in zoology. He became interested in surgery through several pre-medical classes he attended in college and began his medical education at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston. He completed his medical degree and his surgical training at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, where he also completed his internship. At Johns Hopkins, he worked with Dr. Alfred Blalock and assisted in the first "Blue Baby" procedure to correct an infant's congenital heart defect.

1939

Cooley's interests included basketball, which he played in high school and as a three-year letterman for the UT men's basketball team (1939–1941), and golf, which he became interested in during his youth and played for 68 years. (The practice and training facility of the UT men's and women's basketball teams — the Denton A. Cooley Pavilion, which opened in 2003 — was named in his honor.) Among his other outside interests, Cooley played upright bass in a swing band called The Heartbeats from 1965 through the early 1970s.

1946

In 1946 Cooley was called to active duty with the Army Medical Corps. There, he served as chief of surgical services at the station hospital in Linz, Austria, and was discharged in 1948 with the rank of captain. He then returned to complete his residency at Johns Hopkins and remain as an instructor in surgery. In 1950 he went to London to work with Russell Brock.

1950

In the 1950s Cooley returned to Houston to become associate professor of surgery at Baylor College of Medicine and to work at its affiliate institution, The Methodist Hospital. During the 1950s, Cooley began working with American cardiac surgeon, scientist, and medical educator Michael E. DeBakey. During that time he worked on developing a new method of removing aortic aneurysms, the bulging weak spots that may develop in the wall of the artery.

1960

His skill as a surgeon was demonstrated as he successfully performed numerous bloodless open-heart surgeries on Jehovah's Witnesses patients beginning in the early 1960s.

1962

He and his colleagues worked on developing new artificial heart valves from 1962 to 1967; during that period, mortality for heart valve transplants fell from 70% to 8%. In 1969, he became the first heart surgeon to implant an artificial heart designed by Domingo Liotta in a man, Haskell Karp, who lived for 65 hours. The next year, in 1970, "he performed the first implantation of an artificial heart in a human when no heart replacement was immediately available."

1972

On March 13, 1972, the Denton A. Cooley Cardiovascular Surgical Society was founded at the Texas Heart Institute by the Residents and Fellows of Cooley to honor him. Founding President Philip S. Chua had envisioned this exclusive Society to foster academic, professional and personal camaraderie among cardiac Surgeons in the United States and around the world through scientific seminars and symposia. There are now more than 900 cardiac Surgeons from more than 50 countries around the globe who are members of the Denton A. Cooley Cardiovascular Surgical Society.In the HBO film Something the Lord Made, Cooley was portrayed by Timothy J. Scanlin, Jr.

1988

Cooley filed for bankruptcy in 1988, citing real estate debts during a market downturn.

2000

During the 2000 U.S. presidential election, Cooley was asked by then-candidate George W. Bush to review vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney's medical records, particularly concerning the status of his chronic heart condition.

2007

Cooley and the heart surgeon Michael E. DeBakey had a professional rivalry that lasted more than 40 years. They made amends in a public rapprochement on November 7, 2007, when DeBakey was 99 years old (Cooley was 87). Cooley died on November 18, 2016, at the age of 96.

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