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ecial Delivery:
Advanced Cardiac Care
to the Patient
Community support has played a critical role in
establishing the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute
as one of the leading heart institutes in North America.
More than $68 million in generous gifts to the University
Hospital Foundation have accelerated the advancement
of patient care, research and technology at Western
Canada’s preeminent heart institute. And provided
doctors and specialized staff at the Maz with more ways
than ever to save lives.

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The future of surgery is now at the Maz
“Everything within surgery is moving towards less invasive procedures,” explains
Dr. Darren Freed, cardiac surgeon and researcher at the Mazankowski Alberta
Heart Institute, and a leading practitioner of minimally invasive surgery. “We are
moving towards a day where many life-saving cardiac procedures will be done
through a small incision.”
University Hospital Foundation donors have played a critical role in moving
experts like Dr. Freed and his colleague Dr. Michael Moon, who uses minimally
invasive stent graphs to treat high risk patients with life threatening aneurysms,
to the forefront of minimally invasive surgery. By fully funding the $6.6 million
Cardiac Hybrid Operating Room, and supporting the purchase of specialized tools,
donor support helped recruit these top surgeons to Edmonton.

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2009

Donors
make it

possible

The Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute
opens with $54 million in community
support, or one in every four dollars that
it took to build the Maz.

2012
Donor support enables the
Cardiovascular Intensive Care
Unit to add six more beds.

2014
The Servier Virtual Cardiac Centre, the
first imaging centre in Canada to provide
3D images of a beating heart, opens.
University Hospital Foundation
Annual Report 2014-2015

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