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J.W. Awori Hayanga, MD MPH MHL FACS FRCS FCCP FCCM

Vice Chair, Academic Affairs, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery West Virginia University
WVU Medicine
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States

Dr. Hayanga is a Professor in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the West Virginia University Medicine. He is the Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, Director of the WVU Heart & Vascular Institute ECMO Program and Medical Director of Research. Board certified in Cardiothoracic Surgery, General Surgery and Surgical Critical Care, he completed his surgical training at Johns Hopkins University and University of Michigan followed by cardiothoracic and transplant surgery training at the University of Washington and University of Pittsburgh respectively. He earned his MPH from Hopkins, Master in Healthcare Leadership (MHL) from Brown University and Certificate in Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He served as Alfred Sommer Scholar at Johns Hopkins University, a World Health Organization (WHO) Patient Safety Scholar, a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Fellow, Senior Medical Adviser to the Deputy Secretary in Washington, D.C, Levi Watkins Scholar, Johns Hopkins Leadership Fellow and the 2022 Van Praag Lecturer in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Johns Hopkins. He is an expert Health Policy panelist with RAND Corporation, elected member of American Association of Thoracic Surgery (AATS) and editorial board member for Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Journal of Heart & Lung Transplantation and LUNG and expert reviewer for numerous journals including Nature and JAMA. He is a grant-funded researcher and has authored over 180 peer-reviewed papers.

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