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Remembering Kenneth Boyko
Kenneth Wayne Boyko - June 27, 1951 - July 23, 2024
Kenneth Boyko of Newport Beach, California, passed away surrounded in the love of his family on July 23rd of 2024. In lieu of flowers, the family asks that donations be made in Ken’s name to the Adult Ahmanson Congenital Heart Disease Center at UCLA. It was at UCLA where he received the gift of life from a donor and treated with love by the many talented doctors and nurses over decades.
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Impact of Philanthropy: (Life Saving Heart Screenings for patients in need)
On behalf of Jamil Aboulhosn, MD, director of the Ahmanson/UCLA Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center, our ACHD team is so grateful to Mr. Peter Morton whose generous contributions and continued support to fund congenital heart screenings for people who are uninsured or underinsured. Tests, including CT scans, MRI’s, echocardiograms and cardiac stress tests will be available to patients thought to have congenital heart disease or congenital coronary abnormalities. Read full story
September 27, 2020 - 40 Year Anniversary Celebration
2020 marked the 40th anniversary of the Center and we commemorated this occasion with a tribute to the History of ACHD at UCLA.
The Adult Congenital Heart Disease Center at UCLA was founded in 1980 by Dr. Joseph K. Perloff, with the collaboration of Dr. John Child and nurse specialist Mary Canobbio.
3-D Printed Model Used for Heart Valve Replacement
UCLA doctors use 3-D printed model to guide tricky heart valve replacement.
The 3-D model, which was created using a CT scan of a patient's heart, was made of a silicon-like material with properties similar to tissues and other structures in the heart.
