BY ALLISON WRABEL ~ The Daily Progress
Dec 29, 2018
Dr. Larry Gimple has put a lot of heart into his medical work and teaching children how to swim.
Gimple, an interventional cardiologist at the University of Virginia Health System, said he always wanted to do work that was important, that made a difference and where rapid scientific progress was being made.
“My generation has been really living in the golden age of learning how to treat and prevent heart disease,” he said. “We went from fellow, which is training, people were wondering what caused heart attacks, and now we can dramatically intervene and interrupt heart attacks, prevent heart attacks, treat heart attacks.”
“That’s about as good as it gets in terms of a 30-year career or a 40-year career,” he said.
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