Barry Zaret, MD, widely considered the founder of nuclear cardiology, passed away Oct. 20 at the age of 82, Yale School of Medicine said in a release.
Dr. Zaret began his career at Yale (New Haven, Conn.) in 1973 after two years of military service. That same year, he published a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine which set a precedent for the emerging field of noninvasive nuclear cardiology.
He served as the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology for over a decade and the chief of the section of cardiovascular medicine for 26 years.
Dr. Zaret is survived by his second wife, three sons, three stepdaughters and eleven grandchildren.