Dr. Barry D. Rutherford
The World’s First Infarct Angioplasty!
Dr. Barry D. Rutherford (USA) served as a Professor of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and is currently affiliated with Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City. In 1981, he was part of the team that performed the world’s first infarct angioplasty, a key development in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) treatment. In addition, he has contributed to CTO techniques and multi-vessel disease PCI, authored over 200 publications and delivered more than 230 invited lectures. In recognition of his contributions, he received the Geoffrey O. Hartzler Master Clinical Operator Award at TCT in 2012 and the “Master of the Masters” Award at TCTAP in 2016.
Barry, we’ve known each other for many years well over 30 years. Back in the days when you worked with Jeff and I worked with Andreas, who were somewhat competitors as we all know at that time. But since then, you have been affective as the leader of one of the most competitive training programs in interventional cardiology. And I’ve enjoyed working with you traveling around the world from Hawaii to South Africa and then always been amused. So it’s been a great pleasure working with you. You have exhibited style and grace in training people in interventional cardiology. And for that, I truly congratulate you. (Spencer B. King III) Everyone knows about the seminar work you did with primary angioplasty for AMI. 25 years ago, you predicted what is stayed in care today. I think you are best known, however, for your calm and cool manner and your soft but confident voice. For instance, let’s turn the clock back to September 2013, San Francisco, California, America’s Cup races. New Zealander is leading eight versus to one. They need one more race to take the America’s cup. But what happen is Kiwi’s blowed it. America wins 9 consecutive races. And even you, Barry D. Rutherford, cannot keep his cool. Let’s finish this discussion in the hotel by this evening. I’m looking forward to it. (James R. Margolis)
We’re talking from Rochester, Minnesota about an icon. Like honestly have been sort of defined in many different ways as an image, as a symbol, as many other things, but this specific icon we’re talking about today is Barry D. Rutherford who I have known for probably forever. He was one of my first consultants here in Rochester, and he is an icon, comes from an interesting background, a soccer player, very good soccer player, or what would have called footballer. He then came into medicine, came into computer programming, while he was here in Rochester, he then essentially established in use of computers to computerize both the coronary care unit and as well as the catheterization laboratory, as well as all the systems that we take care of patients, after having spent a year going to Salt Lake City during part of this advanced training. As a person, as a mentor, as an icon, you could describe him as an incredibly impassioned, creative soul, interesting person, incredibly talented technically, incredibly talented intellectually, able to problem-solve, able to do all the things that you’d like to do, that you’d like to learn how to do it, he did so naturally. It wasn’t natural completely, he works very hard at it, continues to work very hard at it. But all of those things that define what an interventional cardiology should be, what a cardiology should be, what a person should be, what a human should be, would be defined in that image, that iconic image of Barry D. Rutherford. He then, over the course of his life, has done many things, over the course of his life, has interacted, and really improved the lives of not only patients, but his colleagues and society as a whole. So in this celebration today of Dr. Barry D. Rutherford, I would again state that he is an iconic man, iconic image, iconic symbol of all those things that we each aspire to be throughout our lives professionally and personally. And to Barry D. Rutherford, all the best in the world to now an incredibly iconic man. (David R. Holmes)
Barry, on behalf of the 55 cardiologists and friends, and you have here your St. Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, the cath lab staff, the nurses and everyone else. It’s my distinct pleasure to offer to you our sincerious congratulations, for you have received the most deserved the TCTAP “Master of the Masters” 2016 Award. I personally would never forget the day when we came back from CRF, CTO Summit and announced interventional group that we are doing it wrong. By that you’ve met that, in order that build a successful CTO program, we needed to have a collaborated team. You asked for volunteers and you became restructuring the program. I volunteered for that program and my life has changed dramatically ever since. You stood by me side by side to good times and bad. You brought in guest operators from Japan. You promoted our efforts to gather at future meetings and introduced me to the CTO community. From this, I learned that one can never rest on his laurels and must always strive to be a better operator and can only accomplish to learning and collaborating with others. Barry, you’ve been a teacher, a highly skilled operator, a mentor and a father figure to me and to so many of us in the interventional community that I cannot pick up one more deserving this prestigious award than you. Congratulations and thank you so very very much for all that you have done to deserve it. (James Aaron Grantham) Barry, you are so deserving of this award, being one of the premier interventional operators in the world for over 30 years. You’ve taught us so much about STEMI therapy, chronic total occlusions, complex multi-vessel disease. You’ve been a mentor for young interventionists and you’ve been a role model to the entire world-wide interventional community. From all of your friends in New York city at Columbia, at CRF, we are thrilled that you are this year’s recipient of the TCTAP, Master of the Masters award. (Martin Bert Leon)
In my vivid memory, one evening at a dinner party, Barry suddenly sat down at the piano and began to play and sing. I couldn’t quite remember the exact title of the song, but I think it was Billy Joel’s ‘Piano Man’- “It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, there’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.” It felt as if Billy Joel himself was in the room. Everyone was surprised, and it was touching.
Dr. Barry D. Rutherford (USA) served as a Professor of Medicine at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and is currently affiliated with Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City. In 1981, he was part of the team that performed the world’s first infarct angioplasty, a key development in acute myocardial infarction (AMI) treatment. In addition, he has contributed to CTO techniques and multi-vessel disease PCI, authored over 200 publications and delivered more than 230 invited lectures. In recognition of his contributions, he received the Geoffrey O. Hartzler Master Clinical Operator Award at TCT in 2012 and the “Master of the Masters” Award at TCTAP in 2016.
Barry, we’ve known each other for many years well over 30 years. Back in the days when you worked with Jeff and I worked with Andreas, who were somewhat competitors as we all know at that time. But since then, you have been affective as the leader of one of the most competitive training programs in interventional cardiology. And I’ve enjoyed working with you traveling around the world from Hawaii to South Africa and then always been amused. So it’s been a great pleasure working with you. You have exhibited style and grace in training people in interventional cardiology. And for that, I truly congratulate you. (Spencer B. King III) Everyone knows about the seminar work you did with primary angioplasty for AMI. 25 years ago, you predicted what is stayed in care today. I think you are best known, however, for your calm and cool manner and your soft but confident voice. For instance, let’s turn the clock back to September 2013, San Francisco, California, America’s Cup races. New Zealander is leading eight versus to one. They need one more race to take the America’s cup. But what happen is Kiwi’s blowed it. America wins 9 consecutive races. And even you, Barry D. Rutherford, cannot keep his cool. Let’s finish this discussion in the hotel by this evening. I’m looking forward to it. (James R. Margolis)
We’re talking from Rochester, Minnesota about an icon. Like honestly have been sort of defined in many different ways as an image, as a symbol, as many other things, but this specific icon we’re talking about today is Barry D. Rutherford who I have known for probably forever. He was one of my first consultants here in Rochester, and he is an icon, comes from an interesting background, a soccer player, very good soccer player, or what would have called footballer. He then came into medicine, came into computer programming, while he was here in Rochester, he then essentially established in use of computers to computerize both the coronary care unit and as well as the catheterization laboratory, as well as all the systems that we take care of patients, after having spent a year going to Salt Lake City during part of this advanced training. As a person, as a mentor, as an icon, you could describe him as an incredibly impassioned, creative soul, interesting person, incredibly talented technically, incredibly talented intellectually, able to problem-solve, able to do all the things that you’d like to do, that you’d like to learn how to do it, he did so naturally. It wasn’t natural completely, he works very hard at it, continues to work very hard at it. But all of those things that define what an interventional cardiology should be, what a cardiology should be, what a person should be, what a human should be, would be defined in that image, that iconic image of Barry D. Rutherford. He then, over the course of his life, has done many things, over the course of his life, has interacted, and really improved the lives of not only patients, but his colleagues and society as a whole. So in this celebration today of Dr. Barry D. Rutherford, I would again state that he is an iconic man, iconic image, iconic symbol of all those things that we each aspire to be throughout our lives professionally and personally. And to Barry D. Rutherford, all the best in the world to now an incredibly iconic man. (David R. Holmes)
Barry, on behalf of the 55 cardiologists and friends, and you have here your St. Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute, the cath lab staff, the nurses and everyone else. It’s my distinct pleasure to offer to you our sincerious congratulations, for you have received the most deserved the TCTAP “Master of the Masters” 2016 Award. I personally would never forget the day when we came back from CRF, CTO Summit and announced interventional group that we are doing it wrong. By that you’ve met that, in order that build a successful CTO program, we needed to have a collaborated team. You asked for volunteers and you became restructuring the program. I volunteered for that program and my life has changed dramatically ever since. You stood by me side by side to good times and bad. You brought in guest operators from Japan. You promoted our efforts to gather at future meetings and introduced me to the CTO community. From this, I learned that one can never rest on his laurels and must always strive to be a better operator and can only accomplish to learning and collaborating with others. Barry, you’ve been a teacher, a highly skilled operator, a mentor and a father figure to me and to so many of us in the interventional community that I cannot pick up one more deserving this prestigious award than you. Congratulations and thank you so very very much for all that you have done to deserve it. (James Aaron Grantham) Barry, you are so deserving of this award, being one of the premier interventional operators in the world for over 30 years. You’ve taught us so much about STEMI therapy, chronic total occlusions, complex multi-vessel disease. You’ve been a mentor for young interventionists and you’ve been a role model to the entire world-wide interventional community. From all of your friends in New York city at Columbia, at CRF, we are thrilled that you are this year’s recipient of the TCTAP, Master of the Masters award. (Martin Bert Leon)
In my vivid memory, one evening at a dinner party, Barry suddenly sat down at the piano and began to play and sing. I couldn’t quite remember the exact title of the song, but I think it was Billy Joel’s ‘Piano Man’- “It’s nine o’clock on a Saturday, there’s an old man sitting next to me, making love to his tonic and gin.” It felt as if Billy Joel himself was in the room. Everyone was surprised, and it was touching.