Interviews Collection
Peter Andrew McCullough, MD, MPH: An Interview With the Editor
Peter McCullough was born in Buffalo, New York, on 29 December 1962. When a teenager, his family moved to Texas (Wichita Falls and later to Grapevine). He graduated from Baylor University in May 1984 and from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in June 1988. His residency in internal medicine was at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle, Washington. Upon completion of his 3 years training in June 1991, he moved to Grayling, Michigan, and served as an internal medicine attending at Mercy Hospital for 2 years.PETER RUSSELL KOWEY, MD: a conversation with the editor
Peter Kowey was born in Norristown, Pennsylvania, January 4, 1950, and that is where he grew up. He graduated from Bishop Kendrick High School in June 1967 as Salutatorian and received a Presidential Scholarship to St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia where he graduated in May 1971, Cum Laude with a BS in Biology and was a member of the Alpha Sigma Nu honors program. From there he went to the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for medical school graduating in 1975. His internship in internal medicine was at the Milton S.PAUL A. GRAYBURN, MD, on Percutaneous Mitral Repair With the MitraClip™ Device: A Conversation With the Editor
Paul Grayburn did his general cardiology fellowship under the tutelage of Dr. Anthony N. DeMaria at the University of Kentucky from 1984 to 1986, followed by a year of interventional cardiology training with Dr. David C. Booth. In 1988, he was recruited to the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School by Dr. James T. Willerson, where he served on the faculty for 15 years. During that time, he was director of the echocardiography laboratories at the University of Texas Southwestern and chief of cardiology at the Dallas Veterans Affairs Medical Center, where he also practiced interventional cardiology.ROBERT WILLIAM (“BOBBY”) BROWN, MD, Cardiologist, Major League Baseball Player (New York Yankee), and American League President: A Conversation With the Editor
Bobby Brown (Figure 1) was born in Seattle, Washington, on October 25, 1924. His grew up in Seattle; East Orange and Maplewood, New Jersey; and San Francisco, California. He was president of the student body at Maplewood Junior High School in New Jersey and president of the student body in Galileo High School in San Francisco, from which he graduated in June 1942. His freshman year in college was at Stanford University (1942 to 1943). He enlisted in the United States Navy at age 18 and was assigned to the Navy’s V12 program at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where he completed his premedical studies.LAWRENCE SOREL COHEN, MD: A Conversation With the Editor
Larry Cohen was born on 27 March 1933 in Brooklyn, New York, and that is where he grew up. After finishing public schools in Brooklyn in 1950, he went to Harvard College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, graduating in 1954. From there, he returned to New York City to New York University School of Medicine, where he finished in 1958. He completed his internship and his first 2 years of medical residency at Yale-New Haven Medical Center in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1962, he went to Boston, Massachusetts, as a research fellow in cardiology at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, completing that training in June 1964, and the next month he returned to New Haven as a senior assistant resident at the Yale-New Haven Medical Center.JEAN S. KAN, MD: A Conversation With Colin K.L. Phoon, MPhil, MD
Interventional pediatric cardiology is an established and mature subspecialty in its own right within pediatric cardiology. Although catheter-based techniques for relieving pulmonary stenosis and closing arterial ducts were reported in the 1960s, it is generally acknowledged that Rashkind’s and Miller’s 1966 report of balloon atrial septostomy for transposition of the great arteries heralded the era of therapeutic cardiac catheterization for congenital heart defects. However, broad application of catheter-based interventional techniques to congenital heart disease would await the development and description of a static, transluminal balloon dilation technique.WILLIAM CLIFFORD ROBERTS, MD: An Interview by Charles Stewart Roberts, MD
Over the last decade, several physicians have encouraged me to interview my father for publication. For one reason or another, I failed to comply with these requests until recently, when we both attended a medical meeting aboard a ship in the Mediterranean. The men and the opportunity had finally met.HOLLIS BRYAN BREWER, JR., MD: A Conversation With the Editor
Bryan Brewer, who was born in Casper, Wyoming, on 17 August 1938, is presently the Director, Lipoprotein and Atherosclerosis Research, Cardiovascular Research Institute, MedStar Research Institute, Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC. After attending public schools in Casper, Dr. Brewer graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore with a BA degree in biological chemistry in 1960 and from the Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California, in 1965. His internship and residency in internal medicine were at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston.Donald Carey Harrison, MD: A Conversation With the Editor
Don Harrison was born February 24, 1934, in Blount County, Alabama, located about halfway between Birmingham and Huntsville, and that is where he grew up. He graduated from Birmingham Southern College with a BS in chemistry in 1954 and from the University of Alabama School of Medicine in 1958. His internship and assistant residency in medicine were at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, and they were followed by a year of cardiology with Dr. Lewis Dexter. From 1961 to 1963, he was a clinical associate in the cardiology branch of the National Heart Institute in Bethesda, Maryland.Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD: A Conversation With the Editor*
Joseph Loscalzo is the Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and also Vice Director of the Brigham Biomedical Research Institute. He was born in 1951 in Camden, New Jersey, and that is where he grew up. His precollege training was provided at Catholic schools. He completed college, medical school education, and graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.Lawrence Harvey Cohn, MD: A Conversation With the Editor
Larry Cohn was born in San Francisco, California, in 1937 and that is where he grew up. He received a BA in history from the University of California at Berkley in 1958 and his MD degree in 1962 from Stanford University School of Medicine. His internship and junior assistant residency in surgery was on the Harvard Surgical Service at Boston City Hospital from 1962 to 1964. He then was at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, for 2 years as a surgical associate in the Surgery Branch of the National Heart Institute.Barry Lewis Zaret, MD: A conversation With the Editor
Barry Zaret (Figure 1) was born in New York City on October 3, 1940. He grew up in Brooklyn and Queens and attended public schools before college. He graduated from Queens College in New York City, summa cum laude, in 1962 and from the New York University School of Medicine in 1966. His internship and residency in medicine was at Bellevue Hospital in New York City. His fellowship in cardiology was at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1969 to 1971. During the next 2 years, he was a major in the US Air Force and stationed at the Travis Air Force base in California.Anthony Nicholas Demaria, MD: A conversation with the editor
Tony DeMaria (Figure 1) was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey on January 12, 1943, and grew up in Bayonne, New Jersey. After public and parochial schools, he went to the College of the Holy Cross, graduating in 1964, and then to the New Jersey College of Medicine, graduating in 1968. His internship in internal medicine was at the St. Vincent Hospital in Worcester, Massachusetts, and his junior and senior medical residency was at the US Public Health Service Hospital in Staten Island, New York. His fellowship in cardiovascular medicine was at the University of California at Davis.Wallace Bruce Fye III, MD, MA, MACC: A conversation with the editor
Bruce Fye was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, on 25 September 1946 and grew up mainly in the Philadelphia area (Figure 1). He graduated from The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland in 1968 and from The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1972. At Hopkins, he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha. His internship and 2 years of medical residency were at the New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center. His fellowship in cardiology was at Johns Hopkins. During his fellowship Dr.WIlliam Peter Castelli, MD: A conversation with the Editor
Bill Castelli was born on November 21, 1931 in New York City, but grew up in Teaneck, New Jersey. In 1953, he graduated from Yale College with a BS degree in zoology and he received his MD from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium, in 1959. He did a rotating internship at Kings County Hospital in Brooklyn, New York, and his residency in internal medicine was at Lemuel Shattuck Hospital and Faulkner Hospital in the Boston area. He also had a fellowship in rheumatology at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
