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6th winner
Barry D. Rutherford, MD
Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute, USA
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Dr. Barry D. Rutherford, the Director of
Interventional Cardiology Research Program
at Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute in
Kansas City, Missouri, has been awarded the
6th TCTAP Award ‘Master of the Masters’ held
on April 27th for his outstanding achievement
in the field of interventional cardiology and
contribution to the growth of CardioVascular
Summit-TCTAP over the years.
TCTAP Award ‘Master of the Masters’ has
been bestowed upon the world-renowned
interventional cardiologists who have
built undisputed recognition in the field of
interventional cardiology and TCTAP since
2011.
Dr. Rutherford, born in Gore, graduated
Otago Medical School Dunedin, New
Zealand in 1963. After moving to the U.S., he
came to stand out as an educator, extending
his teaching career at Mayo Medical School,
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. His
passion for fostering the young generation
has continued on without ceasing and
he is currently a Professor of Medicine
at University of Missouri in Kansas City,
Missouri. He has delivered more than 230
invited lectures across the world so far.
Additionally, he has led the interventional
teaching courses at the Mid America Heart
Institute in Kansas City with Dr. Geoffrey
O. Hartzler and that was the root of
current Geoffrey O. Hartzler Interventional
Cardiology Symposium. Dr. Spencer B. King
who is an old friend of Dr. Rutherford and
also the recipient of the 5th Master of the
Masters Award, described him in the words
below. "He has been effective as the leader
of one of the most competitive training
programs in interventional cardiology. He
has exhibited style and grace in training
people in interventional cardiology."
Dr. Rutherford surprised the medical society
not only with his enthusiasm towards
education but also with his performance
as an operator. He greatly contributed to
the development of techniques for direct
balloon angioplasty in acute myocardial
infarction and multi-vessel angioplasty.
His pioneer spirit came to fruition when
he won the TCT 2012 Geoffrey O. Hartzler
Master Clinical Operator Award during the
24th annual Transcatheter Cardiovascular
Therapeutics (TCT) scientific symposium,
which consolidated his power in the field.
Asking a fundamental question to the
field of interventional cardiology -Are we
really saving lives in the long term? -, Dr.
Rutherford continues to move forward to
enrich interventional cardiology society and
leaving an admirable precedent even at this
moment.
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