Myrvin Harold Ellestad

Background

Ellestad, Myrvin Harold was born on August 17, 1921 in Santa Maria, California, United States. Son of Melvin H. and Myrtle Ivy (Dunton) Ellestad.

Education

Bachelor of Arts California, Berkeley, 1943. Doctor of Medicine, University Louisville, 1946.

Career

Intern Jersey City Medical Center, 1946-1947, resident, 1949-1950, Seaside Memorial Hospital, Long Beach, California, 1950-1951. Fellow in pathology, United States Public Health Service cancer trainee San Francisco County Hospital, 1951-1952. Private practice cardiology Long Beach, since 1952.

Medical director Memorial Heart Institute, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, 1986-1991, since 2005, director research, since 1991, director cardiac care line, since 1995. Director heart failure service Memorial Heart Institute, since 1995, director emergency chest pain center, since 1989, director department congestive heart failure. Physician Children's Diagnostic Heart Clinic, Memorial Hospital, Long Beach, California, 1952-1970.

Senior attending physician Memorial Hospital, Long Beach, since 1954, chief department medicine, 1962-1963, vice chief of staff medical center, 1976-1977, chief of staff medical center, 1977-1980, board trustees medical center, since 1981, director division clinical physiology, 1957-1980, chief division cardiology medical center, 1962-1988. Attending physician, member cardiac catheterization team Harbor General Hospital, Torrance, California, 1955-1963, chief of staff, 1961. Assistant clinical professor University of California at Los Angeles Medical School, 1955-1963, associate clinical professor, 1963-1973.

Clinical professor medicine University California-Irvine, since 1973. Cardiology consultant United States Naval Hospital, Long Beach, 1966-1988, Federal Air Surgeon, Federal Aviation Administration Board Appeals, 1971-1986, 90—, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Johnston Space Center, 1977-1978, National Institute Biological Sciences, 1978-1982.

Achievements

• Myrvin Harold Ellestad has been listed as a noteworthy cardiologist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • A Romance with the Heart: An Intimate Look at the Life and work of a Pioneer in Heart Medicine

    (A Life That changed in a heartbeat. Diagnosed with a hear...)

Membership

Lieutenant (junior grade) United States Naval Reserve Middle Common Room, 1947-1949. Fellow American College Cardiology (governor Southern California 1976-1979, chapter secretary-treasurer since 1990), American Heart Association (council on clinical cardiology), American College Chest Physicians, Royal Society Medicine. Member California Society Internal Medicine, Long Beach Society Internal Medicine (president 1954), Long Beach Heart Association (president 1959), American Academy Sports Physicians (board governors 1980), American College Sports Medicine, American Physiological Society, Council of Geriatric Cardiology (board directors 1997).

Interests

• Tennis, skiing.

Connections

Married Lera C. Ellestad. 8 children.