MLF History

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MLF History

• ASD repair 1966 Dr. Robert Gross
• Atrial fib 1990 medications
• TIA 1993 Coumadin

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September 6, 1995
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The Maze Procedure for Atrial
Fibrillation

• Originally an open-heart procedure
• Now minimally-invasive in the OR and the cath lab
• An idea that initially helped a selected few can
  now potentially help millions

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Maze Recognition 2005

• Maze Reunion St. Louis
• ACS Meeting
• John H. Gibbon, Jr. Lecture Surgery for Atrial
  Fibrillation
• Initiates Program Negotiating the Maze From
  Idea to Laboratory to Operating Room to Start-up
  to Sale

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James L. Cox Biography

• University of Mississippi Undergraduate
• University of Tennessee MD
• Surgery Residency Duke
• Associate Professor Surgery Duke
• Professor/Chief Cardiothoracic Surgery
  Washington University 14 years
• Professor/Chairman Cardiothoracic Surgery
  Georgetown University

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Biography

• Over 300 publications
• NIH Research grant for 27 years for the surgical
  treatment of cardiac arrhythmias
• Numerous patents
• Director of American Board of Thoracic Surgery
• Chairman RRC Thoracic Surgery
• President of American Association of Thoracic
  Surgery

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Surgeons Surgeon

• Competent/Thoughtful
• Compassionate/Communicator
• St. Louis Maze Reunion patients
• Confidence without arrogance
• Sense of humor
• I hope you are all still in sinus rhythm
• Role model

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Surgeons Surgeon

• Element of humility
• Maze Procedure instead of Cox Procedure
• Im flattered to be here
• Find guys twice as smart as you and turn them
  loose
• Walk the walk - talk the talk
• Invited operating surgeon in 40 international
  institutions

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