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  • 1.  #TBT: And the beat goes on…thanks to John Hopps

    Posted 02-09-2023 07:25:00 AM

    Canadian engineer John “Jack” Hopps is credited with inventing the cardiac pacemaker in the 1940s. He is shown here with an early model of this mobile defibrillator device.

    photo credit: National Research Council of Canada

    Check out this CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) article about Dr. Hopps: Meet the Canadian engineer who casually invented the pacemaker

    Pacemakers have saved countless lives over the past several decades. Including his own! Dr. Hopps himself had a pacemaker implanted in 1984 and again in 1997.

    As many of you are aware, it’s Heart Month. Interested in more cardiology history? Check out this post about Dr. Paul White, founder of preventive cardiology.



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    Nicole Buckley
    Communications Strategist
    Association of American Medical Colleges
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  • 2.  RE: #TBT: And the beat goes on…thanks to John Hopps

    Posted 02-09-2023 11:49:00 AM

    The story of Hopps saving his own life - and countless others - with his invention of the cardiac pacemaker has always amazed me. Thanks for sharing this bit of cardiology history! 



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    David Skorton
    President and CEO
    Association of American Medical Colleges
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