Pediatric Cardiology

Biography

Emile Bacha is a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon with a subspecialization in pediatric cardiac surgery. From 2000–2004, he was the Surgical Director of the Congenital Heart Center at the University of Chicago. From 2004–2009, he was Senior Associate in Cardiac Surgery at the Children’s Hospital Boston and Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, as well as Cardiac Surgery Fellowship Program Director, and Director of the Pediatric Heart Valve Center. Since January 2010, Dr. Bacha has been Director of the Congenital and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery program at Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University’s College of Physicians & Surgeons, and Weill-Cornell Medical School. In July 2011, he was appointed Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery at Columbia University Medical Center/NewYork Presbyterian.

Abstract

Abstract : Individualized approach in the management of patients with hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS)