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Alon Aharon

Alon S. Aharon, M.D.
Lankenau Heart Institute - Main Line Health
255 West Lancaster Ave.
Medical Office Bldg. 3, Suite 331
Paoli, PA  19301
United States
914 450 1847
Campus Chief of Cardiac Surgery - Associate Professor of Surgery - Lankenau Institute of Medical Research
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Role: 
Surgeon - Cardiothoracic

Background

Boston University - Biomedical Engineering (1985)
Tulane University - Doctorate of Medicine (1990)
UCLA - General Surgery Residency
UCLA - Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship
Vanderbilt University - Cardiothoracic Surgery
Saint Louis University Medical Center
Attending Surgeon, Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Lankenau Heart Institute - Main Line Health -Campus Chief Cardiac Surgery

Other Interests

Ventricular assist devices
Endovascular surgery
Off-pump coronary artery bypass
Minimally invasive cardiac surgery
Heart transplantation
Complex aortic surgery
Mitral valve repair & replacement
Heart failure surgery
Endoscopic and minimally invasive surgery for atrial fibrillation

Research

  • Activation of mitogen-activated protein kinase systems in cerebral endothelium following cortical ischemia.
  • Stroke.
  • Cerebral protection during adult and pediatric cardiac surgery.
  • Immune mechanisms of reperfusion injury in lung transplantation.
  • Immune mechanisms of reperfusion injury in cardiac transplantation.
  • Gene therapy and skeletal muscle plasticity.
  • Complex aortic surgery.
  • Anatomic study of coronary circulation in explanted human hearts.
  • Major histocompatability antigens and expression of vascular adhesion molecule in cardiac and lung allografts during warm and cold ischemia.
  • Neurophysiologic monitoring during hypothermic circulatory arrest.  Detection and treatment of intraoperative stroke.

Additional Educational Information

Biomedical Engineering (1985) – School of Engineering

Boston University, Boston, MA                                 

Honors Thesis: Selective Photoablation of Laser Irradiated Tissue

 

Doctorate of Medicine (1990) - School of Medicine

Tulane University, New Orleans, LA

Class Rank: Upper 20%

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Content Published on CTSNet

Minimally Invasive Repair of Severe Bicuspid Aortic Valve Endocarditis
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Practice Areas

  • Cardiac
  • Electrophysiology/arrhythmia
  • Heart failure
  • Endocarditis
  • Endovascular
  • Great vessels