The Quest to Know the Human Heart: The Disruptors Who Created Modern Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery - Paperback

Dr. Guss grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and majored in Ancient and Medieval European History at Yale University, graduating in 1964. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School in 1968. After training in internal medicine at Harvard at the Beth Israel Hospital in Boston and serving in the Public Health Service at the National Institutes of Health, he was a cardiology fellow at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania from 1972-1974 and then had an additional cardiology fellowship in cardiac catheterization at Harvard at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, 1974-1975. Dr. Guss practiced cardiology from 1975 until January 10, 2023, in a private cardiology group but also served as Director of Cardiac Catheterization and Angioplasty and Director of Coronary CTA at Morristown Medical Center in Morristown, New Jersey, during his practice years. He also served as an officer of the medical staff and has several research papers in cardiology. In 1992 he went to Gothenburg, Sweden, to perform research at the Salgrenska Hospital on a way to prevent restenosis after angioplasty. He retired from the practice of cardiology the day after he turned eighty years old, in January 2023.