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SLCH Heart Center
SLCH Heart Center, Educational Media Production
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Video(s)
Background
The Heart Center team at St. Louis Children’s Hospital provides diagnosis and treatment of complex airway problems, acquired heart problems and congenital heart disease or heart malfunction in children.
Additional Educational Information
Pirooz Eghtesady, MD, PhD- Chief, Section of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
PhD: Molecular Biology and Immunology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 1993
Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles, CA 1993
Residency: General Surgery, Stanford University Hospital, San Francisco, CA 1998
Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Marie Lannelongue Hospital, Paris, France 1999
Fellowship: Cardiovascular Surgery, Maire Lannelongue Hospital, Paris, France 1999
Residency: Cardiothoracic Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD 2001
Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, University of California San Francisco/ Stanford University, CA 2002
Aaron Abarbanell, MD, MS-Assistant Professor, Surgery
Bachelor of Arts: Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 1993
Medical Degree: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 2006
Master of Science: Clinical Research, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana 2010
Residency: General Surgery, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana 2013
Residency: Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 2016
Fellowship: Congenital Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital of Los Angeles / University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California 2017
Practice Areas
- Cardiac
- Congenital
- Cardiac
- Heart failure
- Pericardium
- Valve disease
- Aortic valve disease
- Tricuspid valve disease
- Lung
- Pleura
- Trachea and bronchi
- Congenital
- Single ventricle and palliative procedures
- Pulmonary and systemic venous anomalies
- Transplant
- Vascular
- Great vessels
- Aorta
- Critical Care