Marquis Who's Who Millennium Magazine

264 MILLENNIUM F rom Dr. Dean Mason’s birth to his prolific medical career, he has left an indelible mark on the annals of cardiovascular medicine in America. Dr. Mason has authored over 1,000 articles and 50 books on cardiovascular disease. Dr. Mason began his career graduating Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University and majoring in chemistry. He graduated first in his class fromDuke University Medical School in 1958 and went on to intern at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He returned to both institutions for his medical residency, but from there has practiced medicine all over the map. Notably, he served as senior assistant surgeon and cardiac catheterization laboratory director for the U.S. Public Health Service at the National Heart Institute and the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., during the 1960s. In 1968, Dr. Mason became founding chief of cardiovascular medicine, as well as a professor of medicine and professor of physiology at the University of California Medical School and Davis-SacramentoMedical Center. Faced with primitive facilities, Dr. Mason and his colleagues still managed to become one of the most productive cardiovascular groups in America. At the age of 44, he became the president of the American College of Cardiology and went on to become the director of the Cardiac Center at CedarsMedical Center in Florida and physician-in- chief at theWesternHeart Institute in San Francisco. He found a permanent home with St. Mary’s Medical Center in San Francisco in 1984 as chairman of the department of cardiovascular medicine, and in 2000, transitioned to honorary medical staff at the same institution. Over a long career, Dr. Mason has been asked to consult on many different projects, most commonly as a visiting professor at numerous universities on over 500 occasions. Dr. Mason is affiliated with many medical organizations and societies and has been honored with an equally stunning number of awards, including the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Duke University Medical Center in 1979 and the Master Designation from the American College of Cardiology in 1998. Dean Mason, MD Cardiologist St. Mary's Medical Center El Macero, CA