“The person who influenced me most was the person who disagreed most strongly with me”: an interview with Professor Robert Anderson

Tel/fax: + 1(720)7773379 ; Email: sebastian.goreczny@childrenscolorado.org Dunbar Ivy: Introduction It is a great pleasure to again welcome Professor Robert Anderson to the University of Colorado School of Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Colorado. The following interview was recorded by Dr Sebastian Goreczny, visiting Fulbright scholar and Assistant Professor of Pediatric Cardiology at the Polish Mother’s Memorial Hospital, Research Institute, Lodz, Poland (Fig 1 Figure 1 Professor Robert Anderson with the faculty and trainees of the Department of Cardiology, Colorado Children’s Hospital. Since the 2000s, the committee has met many times, and has formulated a coding system for the categorisation of the congenitally malformed heart. Probably the real innovator, however, and the person who set the scene for the analysis of congenital malformations overall, was Jessie Edwards, the pathologist initially from the Mayo Clinic and then from United Hospitals in the Twin Cities.