Sarver Heart Center

Working 30 Years Toward Heart Disease Prevention

1986 - 2016

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First Leaders 1986-1991

Eugene Morkin, MD, PhD Director,

Cardiologist, Heart Muscle Scientist

Jack Copeland, MD Associate Director,

Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Developing the building plans

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ABOR Approval July 10, 1986

World’s First Successful Artificial Heart Bridge to Transplant Surgery

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Focus Area: Heart Transplantation

Gordon Ewy, MD, Cardiologist, Resuscitation Research Scientist

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Director: 1991 - 2013

Kathryn Reed, MD, OBGYN, uses ultrasound to detect heart birth defects, 1989

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Focus Area: Congenital Heart Disease

Stanley Goldberg, MD, pediatric cardiologist leads study

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Focus Area: Congenital Heart Disease

UA chosen to test device in 1991

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Focus area: Congenital Heart Disease

Frank Marcus, MD, cardiologist credited with introducing radiofrequency energy for cardiac arrhythmia ablations

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Focus area: Arrhythmias

1986 - 2001

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First Office Building

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Building Development

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Construction

2001

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Hippocrates Plaza

2001

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Dedication

Patients Carlos Ochoa and Joseph Thoman

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Ribbon Cutting

2001

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Sarver Family at Dedication

UA President Peter Likins, Dr. Jack Copeland, and UA College of Medicine Dean James Dalen

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Leadership at Dedication

Karl Kern, MD, and Ron Hilwig, DVM

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Faculty at Dedication

Ray Runyan, PhD and Paul Krieg, PhD

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Showing off new lab space

“This building will be the ‘heart,’ but this will always be a ‘center without walls’ with physician scientists throughout the campus and the state.”

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Gordon Ewy, MD, at Dedication

Basic Scientists 2001

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Basic scientists augmented the “center without walls.”

Check, Call, Compress

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Focus Area: Resuscitation Research

Medical Research Building Opens 2006

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Molecular Cardiovascular Research Program

Carol Gregorio, PhD, now Vice Dean for Innovation and Development at UA College of Medicine - Tucson

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Interim Director, 2013-2014

#BearDown and Check, Call, Compress

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CPR Education

Nancy K. Sweitzer, MD, PhD Advanced Heart Disease Cardiologist

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Director 2014 - Present

Carol Gregorio, PhD, leads community tour

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Molecular Cardiovascular Research Program

Continuing advances in cellular regulation of the heart - 2015 and beyond

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Molecular Cardiovascular Research Program

Jen Cook, MD, Rich Smith and Ed Betterton at AHA Science Sessions 2015

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Focus Area: Advanced Heart Disease, Mechanical Circulatory Support, Pulmonary Hypertension and Heart Transplant

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Focus Area: Sudden Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation

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Focus Area: Precision Cardiovascular Therapies

Become part of the Cardiac Biorepository! Just 3 tablespoons of blood helps advance research.

2016 and Beyond - Edna Silva, RN, Charles Katzenberg, MD, and Christy Wilson, RD

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Focus Area: Cardiovascular Health and Wellness

Minority Outreach Coalition in Action - 2016 and Beyond

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Focus Area: Health Disparities

Working to ensure future generations will have the knowledge and care to prevent heart disease.

2016 and Beyond

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