Ali Dodge-Khatami
University of Mississippi, USA
Biography
Prof. Ali Dodge-Khatami studied medicine in Geneva, Switzerland (1991), is board certified as a cardiovascular surgeon in Switzerland since 1998 (The Netherlands (2001, Germany 2008), and obtained his PhD from the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2003). Since 2000, he is committed full-time to Congenital Heart Surgery, published 99 peer-reviewed articles, co-authored 9 book chapters, and continues with animal laboratory research along with student/resident teaching at academic facilities. He was head of the Congenital Heart Program in Hamburg, Germany (2008-12) and is Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at UMMC Jackson, Mississippi, USA since 2013. His interests include tennis, skiing, scuba diving, and teaching congenital heart surgery during humanitarian surgical missions in developing countries.