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| Vol. 25, No. 2 |
| February 1, 2003 |
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Royal College of Surgeons to Honor Denton A. Cooley, M.D. How many men have a museum dedicated to their achievements on both sides of the Atlantic? Denton A. Cooley, M.D., will join the exceptional few soon. The Royal College of Surgeons of England has announced its intention to devote a large portion of a new museum as a tribute to his lifelong work. The college is building the new Hunterian Museum to showcase its collection of medical and scientific materials amassed over the last 250 years. The museum is named for John Hunter, regarded as the founder of scientific surgery. An upper floor of the museum will comprise a permanent exhibition, the Denton A. Cooley Science of Surgery Gallery. “I was quite fortunate to have been able to participate in the first intracardiac operations in England with Lord Russell Brock in the early 1950s. The Royal College’s wish to acknowledge my contributions in the Hunterian Museum is especially gratifying,” said Cooley. “What I find most exciting is the opportunity to strengthen Anglo-American relationships through scholarly exchange.” Part of the project includes an endowment for a series of traveling scholarships, providing support for promising young British and American surgeons to study in Houston and London. Lord Colin Moynihan, a member of the House of Lords of Parliament, is chairing the Hunterian Museum Project Appeal. The project has already received endorsements from British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Honorable James Baker III and former President George Bush. One year ago, the new Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital – The Denton A. Cooley building opened, featuring the Wallace D. Wilson Museum. This museum showcases the evolution of cardiovascular surgery at the Texas Heart Institute over the last 40 years. Cooley has pioneered the development of more than 200 innovations in this field. He is the only man ever to receive both the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the National Medal of Technology. – Kathy Watson
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