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Jesse E. Edwards, M.D> Dr. Jesse E. Edwards, M.D., (July 14, 1911 -- May 18, 2008) Jesse E. Edwards was an American cardiac pathologist whose pioneering work powerfully affected the course of modern cardiology, advances in open heart surgery and in the understanding of both congenital and acquired coronary heart disease. He served as president of the American Heart Association in 1968, and was awarded the organization's Gold Heart Award, among his many accolades. A cardiac pathologist, he established a collection of hearts, now numbering more than 22,000, sent to him for study from physicians around the world. The collection, now called the Jesse E. Edwards Registry of Cardiovascular Disease at United Hospital in St. Paul, Minn., is an international resource used for study in the battle against heart disease. In his long and illustrative career he coauthored nearly 800 journal articles and 16 books, two of them written in the last 12 years after he suffered a stroke but never lost his drive to learn or his dedication to his work. His three-volume Atlas of Acquired Diseases of the Heart and Great Vessels and the companion two-volume Congenital Heart Disease are considered landmark publications in the field of cardiology. From 1946-1960 he was a consultant at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., where he began his work in cardiovascular pathology. At Mayo Clinic in the early 1950’s he was an integral member of the first open heart surgery team. His description of complex congenital heart defects and collaboration with the first cardiac surgeons opened the door for surgical correction. His early clinical training and subsequent specialization in pathology allowed him to link the two fields providing unique clinical insight into the field of pathology. His pioneering work on the blood vessels in the lung in patients with congenital heart disease provided insight that allowed surgeons to better identify surgical candidates and reduce the mortality of open-heart surgery. In the near-century that he lived, he saw extraordinary changes in the treatment of heart disease, many of the advanced related directly to his contributions to the fields of cardiology and cardiovascular surgery. Much of the most important and original work on the study of the heart was being done at medical institutions in Minnesota with which he as associate. His colleagues included most of the pioneers in cardiac surgery and medicine, the surgeons John Kirklin at the Mayo Clinic and C. Walton Lillehei at the University of Minnesota, cardiologist Howard Burchell and physiologist Earl Wood at the Mayo Clinic and radiologist Kurt Amplatz at the University of Minnesota. He worked in collaboration with famed medical illustrators including Frank Netter and Robert Benassi, producing more than 5,000 medical illustrations with Benassi. Widely recognized for his outstanding contributions in his field, he served as president of the American Heart Association and received the Heart Association’s Gold Heart Award. He was president of the first World Congress of Pediatric Cardiology, received an Honorary Degree from Georgetown University’s medical school, was named a distinguished alumnus of the Mayo Clinic and gifted teacher of the American College of Cardiology. The University of Minnesota named him named Teacher of the Year and United Hospital of St Paul presented him with its first Service to Humanity Award and has held an annual lectureship named in his honor for the last 26 years. He had an extraordinary skill for teaching others about his passion, the study of the heart. He trained more than 900 physicians and medical students who came to study with him in the laboratory located in the basement of what was then the Miller Hospital in St. Paul, Minn. His laboratory was a mandatory training destination for many aspiring surgeons and cardiologists. Over the decades, the “Miller Basement Boys,” as they called themselves, traveled from around the globe to study with Dr. Edwards, and many of those students became life-long friends, colleagues and leaders in their field. Countless thousands others count themselves among his students. As medical school students at the University of Minnesota they listened to his lectures and later as physicians they became regular attendees at the cardiac pathology “show and tell” sessions he ran weekly at hospitals around the Twin Cities for more than 30 years. He also prided himself on taking young aspiring students who had been turned down in their application to medical school to train with him for a year. That hands-on experience proved the turning point for many of those students. It gave Dr. Edwards enormous satisfaction that every one of them went on to gain admission to medical school and to have successful medical careers. Many of them credited him with giving them the grounding for that, and in his later years many of them served physicians to their teacher. His opinion was often sought and always valued, and even in his those later years he never lost his clinical skills. When those younger doctors came to treat him, they often got an anatomy lesson or the details of some very unusual fascinating case. It was not surprising to him that when he suffered a heart attack himself, his doctor sought his opinion on other cases while he was recovering in hospital. Even when he was fishing on his beloved Gull Lake near Brainerd, Minnesota, he could not resist the opportunity to teach. He would clean the fish, extracting the heart for an impromptu anatomy lesson for his children and grandchildren. He was born Jesse Efrem Edwards in Hyde Park, Mass., on July 14, 1911, to Max and Nellie Edwards, Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe. Education was considered a priority in the Edwards household. Dr. Edwards began his education in a one-room schoolhouse. Later in life, when he came to believe he was dyslexic, he said he made it through those first eight grades by listening one grade ahead so he could do the work when it came time. He graduated from Tufts College and Tufts Medical School, and did his training at the Albany General Hospital and the Mallory Institute of Pathology at the Boston City Hospital. He began his career with the study of cancer at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, but World War II interrupted that path. During the war he served as Commander in Chief of the Central Medical Laboratories of the European theater. He was part of a war crimes team that went into the Dachau Concentration Camp three days after the Allies liberated it. The scene he saw and the people he met made an indelible mark on him. He would often remember the man who had left the camp on liberation but returned shortly thereafter to the horror that had become his home because the whole world he had known outside the camp was gone. His testimony at War Crimes tribunals helped to convict many Nazis.
In 1946, after the war, he was invited by the Mayo Clinic to join its staff in Rochester. He had intended to continue his cancer work, but the Clinic needed someone to take up Cardiology work and it was sent his way, changing his career path forever. He served on the Mayo Clinic staff for 14 years before leaving in 1960 for the Charles T. Miller Hospital and the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities.
Renowned as the go-to pathologist for the most baffling and complex cardiovascular cases, physicians from around the world began sending him heart specimens. He always expressed great respect for the lessons that people could still teach in life or death, and so he collected the specimens, catalogued and studied them, and wrote and lectured extensively on the lessons he had learned. He was an avid gardener and dedicated Minnesota Twins fan (except when they were playing his Red Sox).
Though he suffered a stroke at age 84, he continued to work and teach. He coauthored two medical textbooks after that event, writing them longhand. He trained himself to write with his left hand when the stroke took away that ability from his right. He was at work on the third post-stroke book at the time of his death. He lived in St. Paul from 1960 to 2006 and had returned to Rochester at that time. He died in Rochester of congestive heart failure on May 18. 2008. He was married to Marjorie Helen Brooks for 56 years, and they have two children, Dr. Brooks S. Edwards, M.D., who followed in his footsteps as a cardiologist at the Mayo Clinic, and his daughter Ellen Edwards Villa, of Washington, DC. Referenceshttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/us/21edwards-backf-obt-25-39.html http://www.startribune.com/obituaries/19123869.html?page=all&prepage=1&c=y http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=2313512 External links
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