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Emile A. Bacha, MD

Chief, CT Surgery
New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center
New York, New York, United States

Dr. Emile Bacha is a US board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon with a subspecialization in pediatric cardiac surgery. Dr. Bacha is a tenured Professor of Surgery at Columbia University and currently the Chief of the Division of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center, and co-Director of the Children's Heart Center at NewYork-Presbyterian of Columbia and Cornell. His prior position was as Senior Associate in Cardiac Surgery at the Children's Hospital Boston and Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Bacha was born in Lebanon and received his medical degree at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. He completed his surgical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and Emory University Hospitals, and a research fellowship at the Marie-Lannelongue Hospital of Paris-Sud University in France. He completed a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at MGH in 1998.
Dr. Bacha's research interests center around rendering pediatric cardiac surgery safer and less invasive. He has been supported by grants from the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association, and Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education. Dr. Bacha is one of the early developers of the "hybrid stage I" procedure for hypoplastic left heart syndrome. He is also one of the developers of a widely accepted technical competency metric for pediatric heart surgeons.
Dr. Bacha has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is a past-Associate Editor of the Journal for Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, a former Director-at-Large of the STS, an executive committee member of the Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society (CHSS), and is currently the Vice-President of the American Association of Thoracic Surgery (AATS).

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