LITERATURE + LECTURES

A Very Special Brazos Event.  Brazos Bookstore presents David K.C. Cooper, MD with his book Open Heart: The Radical Surgeons Who Revolutionized Medicine, Monday, November 1, 7:00 PM.

Open Heart tells the story behind the amazing advances in cardiovascular medicine as performed by the bold and brilliant maverick doctors who strove to perfect them. Having interviewed many of the greatest heart surgeons in person during the past 20 years, this book teems with the excitement of these surgeons' own words. Who were they? What drove them to perform the feats they did? Here are the stories and highlights from the careers of pioneers Christiaan Barnard, Denton Cooley, Michael Debakey, and many others.

David K.C. Cooper, M.D., Ph.D., is a heart transplant surgeon and researcher. He completed his medical education at the University of London, with periods of research at Harvard, Cambridge, and London. In the late 1970s he was a member of the team that performed the first successful series of heart transplants in the U.K. Dr. Cooper holds three doctorate degrees, and is a fellow of both the Royal College of Surgeons of England and the American College of Surgeons.