Conversation with the Artist: Mimi Swartz, Dr. Bud Frazier, Dr. Billy Cohn and Dario Robleto
2014-12-02
In her upcoming book, Mimi Swartz, an executive editor of Texas Monthly, traces the history of the artificial human heart. The first total artificial heart was implanted in 1969 at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston, and much of this tale of ambition and innovation focuses on the work of surgeons living and working in the city today. Dario Robleto and Swartz have been in dialogue since the early stages of their respective projects and invite the public to join them in a layered conversation about the past, present, and future of this technology.