Moberly Regional Medical Center history

By 1983, the system had won wide professional acclaim as one of the very first pacemaker management systems in the world, and it had many unique features.

Doctor Mitchel hired Doctor Peter Alivizatos, who joined the staff in April 1984.

In 1986, Doctor Kevin Wheelan became director of the pacemaker division.

In 1987, Doctor Solis went back to the Philippines and began an angioplasty program there at the request of President Corazon Aquino (Figure ​(Figure55).

Doctor Jay O. Franklin joined the staff in January 1988 after completing his electrophysiology training with Doctor Mel Scheinman in San Francisco.

By January 1990, the first radiofrequency ablation was done.

In 1992, Marcia Seaton, RN, who had also been a pacemaker nurse for 5 years, was hired by HeartPlace to do the pacemaker follow-up for their group.

Doctor William C. Roberts joined Baylor in 1993 after 32 years as chief of the pathology branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health.

Transvenous extraction of pacemaker leads was started in 1995; use of a new laser cutting catheter made it possible to avoid an open chest operation.

By 1998, Doctor Alivizatos had decided to return to Greece, and the Baylor program was merged with the program at Southwestern Medical School, with Doctor Steves Ring in charge as the transplant surgeon; he has continued to oversee the continued growth and expansion of the program.

By 1999, the department became one of the first centers in the USA to be involved in a study employing biventricular pacing for the treatment of intractable congestive heart failure.

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