Denton Arthur Cooley (August 22, 1920 – November 18, 2016) was an American cardiothoracic surgeon famous for performing the first implantation of a total artificial heart. Cooley was also the founder and surgeon in-chief of The Texas Heart Institute, chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at clinical partner Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, consultant in Cardiovascular Surgery at Texas Children's Hospital and a clinical professor of Surgery at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. More about Denton Cooley
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Cooley was born 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.In total, we tracked 179 items since 01/01/2008. The chart below shows the trade volume over time.
The most expensive item with a signature of Denton Cooley (DR. DENTON COOLEY SIGNED SKETCH DRAWING HEART SURGEON MEDICAL INVENTOR PSA/DNA) was sold in June 2017 for $999.00 while the cheapest item (Dr.Denton Cooley M.D Hand Signed Autograph 5X7 Photo) found a new owner for $0.01 in December 2013. The month with the most items sold (7) was February 2013 with an average selling price of $19.99 for an autographed item of Denton Cooley. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in February 2018 with $749.95 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $0.75 was November 2021. In average, an autographed item from Denton Cooley is worth $15.50.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Denton Cooley were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
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100,000 Hearts : A Surgeon's Memoir Hardcover Denton Cooley First Ed, Signed, HC | $18.00 | ||
Denton Cooley Heart Surgeon Signed Autograph First Day Cover PSA DNA j2f1c | $109.99 | ||
Denton Cooley Letter Signed (re: Medical Discoveries) Cardiac Surgeon | $15.50 | ||
Denton Cooley M.D. Heart Surgeon Signed Autographed Index Card PSA/DNA Slabbed | $20.50 | ||
Denton Cooley Signed 3x5 Index Card Autographed Surgeon First Artificial Heart | $45.00 | ||
Dr. Denton Cooley signed business card - first artificial heart transplant | $12.50 | ||
Dr. Denton Cooley, Dr. Christian Barnard, Pioneer Heart Surgeons, signed FDC | $110.00 | ||
Original Denton Cooley Heart Surgeon Signed Autograph Drawing 2014 Black Marker | $111.39 | ||
Rare Tx Heart Poster signed by Heart Surgeon Denton Cooley & Artist B Fuchs 1987 | $99.00 | ||
SIGNED Denton Cooley Hardcover Essay Book 1984 Heart Surgeon Inscribed & Dated | $94.99 |