Dr. Copeland on cardiac transplantation. Interview by Monica Kalker

The following interview is an exchange between Jack Copeland, M.D., Robert Emery, M.D., and Anne Nicholson, R.N., members of the heart transplant team at the University of Arizona Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona. Dr. Copeland currently is the chief cardiac surgeon as well as professor and chief of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Emery is an associate professor in the division of cardiothoracic surgery. Ms. Nicholson is a cardiac transplant coordinator for the Center. The University of Arizona's Heart Transplant program has proven itself in terms of actuarial survival, innovative approaches to recipients, surgical techniques, and with the maintenance of relatively short hospital stays and low costs to the patient.