Robert Arthur Bruce (1916 - 2004)

Born 20 Nov 1916 in Somerville, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States

Husband of Jean Phyllis (Bishop) Bruce — married 1995 (to 2000) in Seattle, King, Washington, United States

Died 12 Feb 2004 at age 87 in Seattle, King, Washington, United States

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Biography

Robert Bruce is Notable.

Dr. Robert Arthur Bruce was known as the "father of exercise cardiology." He developed the Bruce Exercise Treadmill Test at the University of Washington, using a treadmill and sensors to monitor heart rate, blood pressure and other factors over seven stages of three minutes. Through the Seattle Heart Watch Program, he developed an extensive database according to age, sex and habitual pattern of activity to track cardiac function.

Dr. Bruce was diagnosed with chronic lymphatic leukemia about ten years before his death. He died at his home in Seattle.

He was widowed twice before he died; he was survived by a wife whom he married 20 months prior; he had three sons and five stepchildren. For details connecting him to Jean (Bishop) Laughlin see his obituary in the Los Angeles Times 16 Feb 2004.^[1] See also his obituary in the New York Times, which gives more details about his marriages:^[2]

A link to his Wikipedia page is here:^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-feb-16-me-bruce16-story.html
2. ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/14/us/robert-a-bruce-is-dead-at-87-pioneer-of-cardiac-stress-test.html
3. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Bruce

• *AHA Journals, originally published May 2005, vol. 111 no 18 https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.CIR.0000164274.41137.75