Harry Lee Page Jr., MD, a pioneer of modern cardiology, died Aug. 1 at 88 after a long illness, Nashville, Tenn.-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center said in an Aug. 3 news release.
Dr. Page was a founding partner of the Page-Campbell Cardiology Group at Saint Thomas Hospital in 1970, which became part of Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute in 2006. He has worked at Vanderbilt for decades.
Dr. Page began his career in the infancy of coronary artery surgery when it was highly controversial. He was involved in a number of firsts, including developing a community cardiac catheterization laboratory at Saint Thomas Hospital in 1968; performing one of the first coronary angioplasties in the United States in 1979; and was a founding member of the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Intervention.
Dr. Page is survived by his wife, children and three grandchildren.
Read his full obituary here.