Deatherage, William G.

Upon graduating from Texas A&M, Blake Deady accepted a one-year Pre-doctoral Fellowship position with the Texas Heart® Institute (THI) at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in the Texas Medical Center. As a Fellow and research intern, Blake divided his time between Comparative Cardiovascular Pathology and the Cullen Cardiovascular Research Laboratories where he completed qualifications for FDA preclinical validation studies (GLP –Good Laboratory Practices).

At the conclusion of his fellowship, THI offered Blake Deady a Senior Research Assistant position where he became a member of a cardiovascular surgical research team investigating a variety of preclinical and clinical research endeavors including the Jarvik 2000 FlowMaker®, the AbioCor™ implantable replacement heart (the first completely self-contained total artificial heart), mechanical replacement valves, stem cell regeneration of ischemic myocardium, BioGlue® surgical adhesive, and near-infrared spectroscopy to monitor regional cerebral oxygen saturation during infrarenal aortic cross-clamping.

Blake’s research culminated in a study evaluating antibody inhibition of the body’s inflammation response to cardiopulmonary bypass which was conducted in the baboon model. When not in the surgical labs, Blake was part of a cardiovascular pathology research team integral in designing software used to microscopically evaluate atherosclerotic plaque and coronary stenosis.

Blake has co-authored two medical manuscripts accepted for publication, one in The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, over 30 medical abstracts and presentations, and personally presented research involving steroid-eluting cardiac pacemaker wires at the 46th Annual Conference of the American Society for Artificial Internal Organs in New York, June 2000.

Blake remains closely involved with medicine in his practice which focuses on pharmaceutical litigation. Prior to coming to Clark, Love & Hutson, Blake was a member of a boutique litigation firm handling complex medical malpractice cases in Texas and Arkansas.