Photo gallery: Dr. Jack Copeland leaving UA

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Dr. Jack Copeland is leaving the University of Arizona, after nearly 33 years of service.

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Dr. Copeland — Dr. Jack Copeland, performing reconstructive heart surgery on a 70 year old woman at University Medical Center 12/6/96. Sarah Prall/Arizona Daily Star

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Dr. Copeland — Dr. Jack Copeland leads the team in a lung transplant for Clarence Buxton who was suffering from primary pulmonary hypertension- high blood pressure in the lungs and in the pulmonary arteries that carry blood from the heart to the lungs. Photo taken on 2/3/89. Ron Medvescek/Arizona Daily Star

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Dr. Copeland — Dr. Jack Copeland. 12/13/96. Sarah Prall/Arizona Daily Star

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Dr. Copeland — Willie Maskiell 7, from Mesa the youngest ever to recieve a Thoratec Heart Assist Device yawns while Dr. Jack Copeland tells of how and why he recieved the Thoratec heart assist device. Willie was on the heart device for 22 days before he received his heart transplant. In Willie's hand is a manual hand pump that is used to power the device if the air pump fails. Photo taken on 10-8-98. Jim Davis/Arizona Daily Star

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Dr. Copeland — Day in the Life. Dr. Jack Copeland, one of Tucson's most famous heart surgeons, cruises the hallways of UMC doing rounds with his residents after spending most of the day in surgery. 11/10/98. Sarah Prall/Arizona Daily Star

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Dr. Copeland — Heart surgeon Dr. Jack Copeland checks up on heart transplant patient Ricky Montano during his rounds at University Medical Center. Montano was fitted with an artificial heart for three months before his transplant on March 17th (St. Patrick's Day) and feels fit as a fiddle one week later depsite the huge incision down the middle of his chest. Someone was also kind enough to draw a smiley face on his bandage for moral support. Photo taken on 3/25/99. Sarah Prall/Arizona Daily Star

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Dr. Copeland — Dr. Jack Copeland of the Cardiothoracic Surgery at UMC, may make medical history if UMC is granted to test the first fully implantable total artificial heart, a move that would make medical history. Copeland is holding the current CardioWest artificial heart, but the patient is connected to a large 300lb. consule. The new fully implantable artificial heart would eliminate the consule. Photo taken 4/20/01. David Sanders/Arizona Daily Star

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Dr. Copeland — Dr. jack Copeland is the world pioneer in the use of the Cardiowest heart he is holding in a University Medical Center exam room. The implantable heart has been used in hundreds of patients worldwide. UMC budget cuts have forced him to seek $1 million through private investment to advance the heart through FDA licensing. 12-20-01. JEFFRY SCOTT/Arizona Daily Star

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Dr. Copeland — Artificial heart recipient Bill Lewis, center, listens with his wife, Bettye as Dr. Jack Copeland, chief of cardiothoracic surgery, speaks at a press conference, Thursday, April 4, 2002, at the University of Arizona College of Medicine, about artificial hearts and heart transplants. RENEE SAUER/Arizona Daily Star

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Dr. Copeland — Jim Hill, right, who has survived on the CardioWest Total Artificial Heart for 205 days, sits during a press conference announcing FDA approval of the heart in a University Medical Center conference room Monday, October 18, 2004 in Tucson, Arizona as Dr. Jack Copeland, middle, discusses the heart. Richard Smith, an engineer on the artificial heart program is at left. JEFFRY SCOTT/Arizona Daily Star

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Dr. Copeland — Dr. Jack Copeland holds a model of the CardioWest Total Artificial Heart during a press conference announcing FDA approval of the heart in a University Medical Center conference room Monday, October 18, 2004 in Tucson, Arizona. The unit which controls the heart when implanted in a patient is in the background (the big blue box). JEFFRY SCOTT/Arizona Daily Star

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