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Heart Transplantation

 
University of Minnesota offers one of the longest-running transplant programs in the world. For 30 years, transplant surgeons have been at the forefront of a generation of breakthroughs in advanced heart failure and heart transplant. As leaders in innovative research, we are committed to bringing the science and art of medicine together to provide the best possible care for patients and their families. Our leadership began in 1978, when our physicians performed the first heart transplant in Minnesota. Since then, we have performed more than 700 heart transplants. Our surgeons performed the state’s first heart/lung transplant in 1986.

A hallmark of our program is excellent survival rates. Our transplant patients have a 75 percent survival rate after five years, and a 64 percent survival rate after 10 years. The nation’s longest living heart transplant recipient benefited from our innovative care for more than 25 years following surgery.

  • Ventricular Devices -- University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview, offers one of the largest mechanical support device programs in the country. We are a national leader in implanting ventricular assist devices (VADs), performing more than 60 VADs each year. In some patients, the clinical application of a VAD has mended weakened cardiac tissue, offering an opportunity to understand the molecular basis of heart failure.
Fairview features nearly 4,000 providers practicing at over 200 locations throughout the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area and beyond. Fairview Clinics, University of Minnesota Physicians and our independent partner clinics provide an exceptional care experience, while lowering the overall costs of health care.

Cardiology

Wayne Adkisson, MD, FACC
Bilal Ali, MD, FACC
Emily Aviles, MS, BSN, ACNP
Robert Bache, MD
Stephen Battista, MD, FACC
David Benditt, MD, FACC, FRCPC, FHRS
Alan Berger, MD
Norman Chapel, MD, FACC
Lin Yee Chen, MD
Jay Cohn, MD
Monica Colvin-Adams, MD
Gary Cramer, MD, FACC
C. Jennifer Dankle, DO, FACC
Gladwin Das, MD
Laura Diamandopoulos, MD, LMCC, FACC
Candace Dick, MD, FACC
Daniel Duprez, MD, PhD
Peter Eckman, MD
James Erdahl, MD, FACC
Eric Ernst, MD, FACC
Karl Foster-Smith, MD, FACC
Gary Francis, MD, FACC, FAHA, FACP
Daniel Garry, MD, PhD
Steven Heifetz, MD, FACC
Gregory Helmer, MD, FACC
Alan T. Hirsch, MD, FACC, FAHA, FSVM
Lynn Hoke, NP, RN, MSN
Brian Ip, MD, FACC
Demosthenes Iskos, MD, FACC
Renuka Jain, MD
Helina Kassahun, MD
Robert Ketroser, MD, FACC
Charles Kim, MD, FACC
Elizabeth Klodas, MD
Suma Konety, MD
Renee Lance, PA-C
David Laxson, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A.
Brian Lew, MD, FACC
Huagui Li, MD, PhD, FACC
Fei Lu, MD, PhD
Keith Lurie, MD
K.P. Madhu, MD
Richard Madlon-Kay, MD
Michael Manoles, MD, FACC
Cindy Martin, MD
Sophia Carolina Masri, MD
Emil Missov, MD, PhD
James Moller, MD
Quan Pham, MD, FACC
Dominic Plucinski, MD, FACC
Marc Pritzker, MD
Ganesh Raveendran, MD
Scott Sakaguchi, MD
Ronald Sih, MD
Naip Tuna, MD
Uma Valeti, MD
Tushar Vora, MD, FACC
K. Wang, MD
Robert Wilson, MD
Demetris Yannopoulos, MD

Cardiothoracic Surgery

Roosevelt Bryant III, MD
Ranjit John, MD
Rosemary Kelly, MD
Kenneth Liao, MD, PhD
J. Ernesto Molina, MD, PhD
Sara Shumway, MD
James St. Louis, MD
Herbert Ward, MD, PhD

Heart Transplant Medicine

Monica Colvin-Adams, MD
Peter Eckman, MD
Gary Francis, MD, FACC, FAHA, FACP
Daniel Garry, MD, PhD
Cindy Martin, MD
Sophia Carolina Masri, MD
Emil Missov, MD, PhD
Marc Pritzker, MD

Pediatric Cardiology

Rebecca Ameduri, MD
John Bass, MD
Elizabeth Braunlin, MD, PhD
Parvin Dorostkar, MD, MS, MBA
Ann Dunnigan, MD
Daniel Gruenstein, MD
Edward Kaplan, MD
Lazaros Kochilas, MD
Jamie Lohr, MD
Edward Chip Martin, MD
James Moller, MD
Lee Pyles, MD, FAAP, FACC
Melissa Richardson, PA-C
Charles W. Shepard, MD
Shanthi Sivanandam, MD
Julia Steinberger, MD, MS

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Sameer Gupta, MD
Neil Kooy, MD
Ashley Loomis, MD
Arif Somani, MD
Marie Steiner, MD, MS

Pediatric Heart Transplant Surgery

Roosevelt Bryant III, MD
James St. Louis, MD
Fairview features nearly 4,000 providers practicing at over 200 locations throughout the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area and beyond. Fairview Clinics, University of Minnesota Physicians and our independent partner clinics provide an exceptional care experience, while lowering the overall costs of health care.

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