User:Madlaham/Edward Diethrich, MD

Edward Diethrich, MD Diethrich is the Medical Directer and Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Arizona Heart Institute and Arizona Heart Hospital. He founded the Arizona Heart Institute in 1971 along with a Cardiovascular Summer Student Program. He had the first heart catheterization lab, performed the first televised heart surgery, and invented the sternal saw for heart surgery. Diethrich worked under the tutelage of cardiac surgeons Michael DeBakey and Denton Cooley.