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Title: 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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