University of Rochester Newsroom | URMC Surgeons Implant 1st Total Artificial Heart in Upstate New York HealthCanal.com “This is tremendous technology that can have a dramatic effect on patients who are experiencing advanced heart failure,” said H. Todd Massey, MD, surgical director of the URMC Artificial Heart Program who led the surgery. “For this patient, it was the ... Total Artificial Heart Transplant is Region's First |