III, M.D. Dr. King worked closely with Andreas Gruentzig, the founder of PTCA, at Emory University. Dr. King currently heads the Andreas Gruentzig Cardiovascular Center at Emory, and next year will serve as President of the American College of Cardiology. Where does a breakthrough, call it genius, call it charisma, call it whatever causes people to take a fresh new look at something. There s always a place for that.
People get staid.
You get grant applications. Everybody s in a mold of grinding out and moving in one direction. All of a sudden, some young investigator comes along and they want to do something very differently, and they throw out a wild idea. So we need ways for craziness to go on in science and in medicine. This was a dog experiment, ligating an artery, putting a balloon, blowing it up and restoring flow.