Cardiovascular Consultants PC history

In the 1830's, an Irish physician, Dominic John Corrigan, described aortic insufficiency diagnosed by a sharply declining "water hammer" pulse.

Figure 5: Marey's Wrist Sphygmograph, 1857.

There were other specialists in cardiology in Europe, going back into the end of the 1880's.

A pulse controller made by Castagna in 1885 is illustrated in Fig.

There is at least one other landmark that equals in importance for our specialty the work of Harvey, and that is the contribution of William Einthoven2, several centuries later, actually the early 1900's.

Eight years later, in 1934, with the help and counsel of Russel Burton Opitz, a practicing cardiologist and professor of physiology at a medical school, Bishop was able to convene a group and organize the New York Cardiological Society.

One day in 1935, a man was ushered into my office; he said his name was Groedel.

At the end of 1941, the elder Bishop died.

CVA was founded in 1946 by Doctor John B. Burrett of Birmingham.

The American College of Cardiology achieved its legal start with the granting of its charter on December 2, 1949.

By the time the first general meeting was held in June 1952, the program attracted a medical audience of almost 500 physicians, from almost every state in the union, from Canada and from as far away as Hawaii.

The solidity of cardiology as a recognized specialty is by 1978 well established all over the world, and to a large extent due to the dream of Louis Bishop, Sr., and of Franz Groedel.

By 1979, he had established Prairie, with the goal to deliver state-of-the-art critical medical care to people outside metropolitan areas, according to Doctor Marc Shelton, President, Prairie Cardiovascular, who was recruited by Dove 18 years ago to become Prairie’s 12th physician.

Doctor Gerry M. Phillips, in 1985, recognized the necessity for a cardiovascular practice that could serve as a complete source for patients with a variety of cardiac and vascular conditions.

Cardiac Rehab opened in 1993.

In the early 2000’s, with continued growth of the practice and an endowment from Rolf and Alexandra Kauka, the idea of a Cardiovascular Center began to take shape.

Doctor Robert Miles joined the practice in 2005.

Doctor Rick Kerensky came in 2006 and started the cardiac interventional program.

A research limb was added to the growing practice in 2019 which includes the development and application of new drugs and techniques.