Works of Heart

Five decades of service

In 1966, an internal medicine residency brought Dr. Solis to Baylor University Medical Center (BUMC) in Dallas, Texas. A cardiology fellowship followed, and so began his association with Baylor, which continues today after more than five decades. Dr. Solis currently serves as medical director of the Plano location’s cardiac rehabilitation program, the largest in Texas.

As a cardiology interventionalist at BUMC, Dr. Solis achieved the following:

• First to perform a transfemoral and transradial left heart catheterization at BUMC
• First successful percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) in North Texas in 1980
• The first Filipino physician in the world who performed a PTCA in North Texas
• First to perform radial coronary angiography and angioplasty at BUMC.
• First to establish a pacemaker clinic in Dallas
• First non-surgeon to perform transvenous permanent pacemaker implantation at Baylor and in North Texas

Making an impact

Dr. Solis’s impact extends beyond North Texas. He has trained numerous fellows in interventional cardiology and has traveled extensively to share his knowledge. However, one of his most significant international accomplishments was establishing the interventional cardiology program at the Philippine Heart Center in Metro Manila. This initiative has had a lasting impact on cardiology in the Philippines and beyond.

Dr. Solis is one of the longest-serving medical staff members at Baylor Scott & White Health. His unwavering dedication to patient care is a testament to his commitment, as he dreams of providing six decades of patient care, working uninterrupted in the same healthcare system.