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Alla G. Zaver, M.D.

	Alla G. Zaver, M.D.
Biography	I graduated on December 12, 1949 with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor in Surgery from the University of Queensland Medical School, Australia. After residency at the 1200 bed teaching hospital multispecialty medical complex, I was appointed the Medical Registrar of the hospital. After 3 years, I transferred to the Royal Melbourne Teaching Hospital in Victoria for further specialty training and passed the specialty board's exam earning membership in the Royal Australasian College of Physicians degree (MRACP). I was then accepted in the internationally renowned London Hammersmith Hospital Postgraduate Institute and again took the multispecialty board exam and received the MRCP (London). Further specialty training in London was at the Brompton Hospital Respiratory Institute and the National Heart Institute. There I was accepted into the Cardiac Department to work closely with the internationally renowned Dr. Paul Wood and the surgeon Lord Brock and his team of pioneering cardiac surgeons. My title was Honorary Medical Registrar. These physicians led the new field in Cardiac Disease and Surgery, a new frontier in England and Europe. My exposure was directly involved in early cardiac catheterizations and cardiac valve surgery where I was responsible in setting up and performing hemodynamic monitoring during the operations. It was in this setting that I introduced the non-invasive cardiac measurements of cardiac patients with arrhythmias and various congenital heart defects especially with shunt, using green dye and ear oxymetry sensor instrumentation. This method was first introduced at the Mayo Clinic in the U.S. In international travels, Dr. Wood also was invited to Boston. He was asked if he could recommend a cardiology trained physician to work at the Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School affiliation to replace their cardiologist, Dr. Abe Rudolph who had departed for California. I was recommended and arrived in Boston about 1957. In Boston, I developed a federally funded project "Adaptation of Young Cardiacs." This received national attention. Subsequently I co-coordinated my professional activities as Director of the Intensive Care Unit under the Tufts Medical School teaching hospital affiliation with part-time continued involvement as Cardiologist in charge of the Adolescent Cardiac Clinic at Boston Children's Hospital and was invited to participate as Consultant to the newly established Social Security Disability Program which would include children and adolescents in 1974. My role expanded to become the Regional Advisor for Region 1 of US. Since my arrival in Boston I have served on a voluntary basis as Board Member of the American Heart Association, chaired many of the projects and committees while Director of the ICU including Chair of the hospital Quality Assurance Committee for many years. In the interim, I was elected Fellow of the American College of Physicians and Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.
Industry	Government/healthcare
Title	M.D.; SSA Regional Medical Advisor
Expertise	Internal medicine, cardiology
Current Organization	Social Security Administration
Type of Organization	Federal government
Major Product	Social Security Administration
Area of Distribution	Region I, New England 6 states, report to Baltimore
University/Degree	MB. BS (Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery, equivalent to M.D. as per Mass. Medical Board of Registration), Australia University of Queensland Medical School
Born	December 26, 1923, Harbin, Manchuria
Honors & Awards	Outstanding Public Service Award, Social Security Administration, U.S. Dept. of Human Resources (HEW), 1982; Certificate of Appreciation, American Heart Association; Certificate of Appreciation, American Heart Association, Massachusetts Affiliate and Greater Boston, 1989; Active Member Recognition, New York Academy of Sciences, 1984
Published Works	8 articles, 5 abstracts including- Zaver, A.G., Nadas, A.S.: Five Congenital Cardiac Defects, A study of the Profile and Natural History, Atrial Septal Defec Secundum Type, Supplement to Circulation 32:#6, 1965, American Heart Association Monography No 12; Zaver, A.G.: Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension, International Anesthesiology Clinics, Pediatric Anesthesia 1:69 August 1962, Little, Brown & Company, Boston, MA; Alla G. Zaver, M.B., B.S., M.R.A.C.P., M.R.C.P. (London), Cardiac Problems in Adolescents, The Medical Clinics of North American, March 1965, Vol 49, No 2, W.B. Saunders Company
Affiliations	Fellow, Royal Australian College of Physicians MRACP 1956, Fellow PRACP 1973; Member, Royal College of Physicians, London (MRCP), 1957; Fellow, American College of Physicians (FACP), 1965; Fellow, American College of Cardiology (FACC), 1974; American Heart Association; Massachusetts Medical Association; Former Affiliations: British Medical Society; American Association for the Advancement of Science; American Society of Law and Medicine
Hobbies & Sports	Gardening, nature, music
Career Accomplishments	Worked closely with the internationally renowned Dr. Paul Wood and the Surgeon Lord Brock and his team of pioneering cardiac surgeons leading in the new field in Cardiac Disease and Surgery; directly involved in early cardiac catheterization and cardiac valve surgery responsible in setting up and performing hemodynamic monitoring during the operations; Introduced the non-invasive cardiac measurements of cardiac patients with arrhythmias and various heart defects especially with shunt, using green dye and ear oxymetry sensor instrumentation; developed a federally funded project "Adaptation of Young Cardiacs" which received national attention; served on a voluntary basis as Board Member of the Worked closely with the internationally renowned Dr. Paul Wood and the Surgeon Lord Brock and his team of pioneering cardiac surgeons leading in the new field in Cardiac Disease and Surgery; directly involved in early cardiac catheterization and cardiac valve surgery responsible in setting up and performing hemodynamic monitoring during the operations; Introduced the non-invasive cardiac measurements of cardiac patients with arrhythmias and various heart defects especially with shunt, using green dye and ear oxymetry sensor instrumentation; developed a federally funded project "Adaptation of Young Cardiacs" which received national attention; served on a voluntary basis as Board Member of the American Heart Association, chaired many projects and committees while Director of the ICU including Chair of the hospital Quality Assurance Committee
Work History	Residency at University of Queensland Teaching Hospital, appointed Medical Registrar; specialty training Royal Melbourne Teaching Hospital in Victoria; London Hammersmith Hospital Postgraduate Institute; Brompton Hospital Respiratory Institute and the National Heart Institute; Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School; Director of the Intensive Care United under the Tufts Medical School teaching hospital and Cardiologist in charge of the Adolescent Cardiac Clinic at Boston Children's Hospital; Consultant to the Social Security Disability Program; Regional Advisor, SSA
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