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Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University Thoracic Surgery - Independent

Residency · Philadelphia, PA

Sponsored by SIDNEY KIMMEL MEDICAL COLLEGE AT THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY · Director Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili

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  • Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili, MD

    Director, Thoracic Surgery Fellowship Program

    Thoracic surgeon, Associate Professor at SIDNEY KIMMEL MEDICAL COLLEGE AT THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY

  • Olugbenga Okusanya, MD

    Associate Director, Thoracic Surgery Fellowship Program

    Thoracic surgeon, Associate Professor at SIDNEY KIMMEL MEDICAL COLLEGE AT THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY

    Pectus Excavatum, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome, Lung Cancer, Disparities in surgical therapy in thoracic cncology

  • John Entwistle, MD, PhD

    Interim Director, Division of Cardiac Surgery

    Thoracic surgeon, Professor at SIDNEY KIMMEL MEDICAL COLLEGE AT THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY

    Ventricular assist devices (LVADs), Heart transplantation, Mechanical circulatory assist, Total artificial heart

  • Nathaniel Evans, MD

    Director, Division of Thoracic & Esophageal Surgery

    Thoracic surgeon, Professor at SIDNEY KIMMEL MEDICAL COLLEGE AT THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY

  • Charles Hoopes, MD, MPH

    Faculty

    Thoracic surgeon, Professor at SIDNEY KIMMEL MEDICAL COLLEGE AT THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY

  • Claude Beaty, MD

    Site Director, Temple Thoracic Residency Program, Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University

    Congenital cardiac surgery physician, Site Director at SIDNEY KIMMEL MEDICAL COLLEGE AT THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY

    Single ventricle, Adult congenital heart surgery

  • Jacqueline Ballester, MD

    Resident

    Surgeon at SIDNEY KIMMEL MEDICAL COLLEGE AT THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY

  • James West, MD

    Faculty

    Thoracic surgeon, Assistant Professor at SIDNEY KIMMEL MEDICAL COLLEGE AT THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY

  • John Jacob, MD

    Faculty

    Surgical critical care physician, Clinical Associate Professor at SIDNEY KIMMEL MEDICAL COLLEGE AT THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY

  • Joseph Bavaria, MD

    Faculty

    Thoracic surgeon, Professor at SIDNEY KIMMEL MEDICAL COLLEGE AT THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY

  • Keshava Rajagopal, MD, PhD

    Faculty

    Thoracic surgeon, Professor at SIDNEY KIMMEL MEDICAL COLLEGE AT THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY

  • Konstadinos Plestis, MD

    Faculty

    Thoracic surgeon, Professor at SIDNEY KIMMEL MEDICAL COLLEGE AT THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY

  • Louis Samuels, MD

    Faculty

    Thoracic surgeon, Professor at SIDNEY KIMMEL MEDICAL COLLEGE AT THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY

  • Mauricio Garrido, MD

    Faculty

    Thoracic surgeon, Clinical Assistant Professor at SIDNEY KIMMEL MEDICAL COLLEGE AT THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY

    Repair of complex acute and chronic aortic dissection, Valve-sparring aortic root replacement, Transcatheter aortic valve repair (TAVR/TAVI), transfemoral and alternate access approaches, Heart valve reconstruction and replacement, including: Mechanical and bioprosthetic tissues (bovine, porcine, human)

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    Shawn Tsutsui, MD

    Resident

    Thoracic surgeon at SIDNEY KIMMEL MEDICAL COLLEGE AT THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY

  • Tyler Grenda, MD, MS

    Faculty

    Thoracic surgeon, Associate Professor at SIDNEY KIMMEL MEDICAL COLLEGE AT THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY