Cardiac Surgeon and Professor of Surgery
Northwestern Medicine/Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Dr. S. Chris Malaisrie is a Professor of Surgery in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at Northwestern University and Attending Cardiac Surgeon at Northwestern Medicine. Having graduated from the University of Maryland Medical School in 1998, he went on to complete a residency in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine in 2006, followed by a fellowship in Heart and Lung Transplantation at Stanford University in 2007. Within the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute of Northwestern Memorial Hospital, he is Surgical Director of Comprehensive Aorta Center. He specializes in cardiovascular surgery for valvular heart disease, the aorta, and the pulmonary artery. The procedures he performs include minimally invasive valve repair, valve-sparing aortic root replacement, Ross procedure, and pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. His research focus is on transcatheter and endovascular therapies for heart valves and the aorta.
Dr. Malaisrie serves as the Program Director for Thoracic Surgery Residency and Fellowship at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
Outside of Northwestern Medicine, he co-chairs the AATS Cardiac Clinical Practice Standards Committee, chairs the STS Taskforce for International Education, and is Chair for the ACC Cardiac Surgery Team Council. Additionally, he is currently an Ad Hoc Member of the Data and Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) on the Cardiothoracic Surgical Trials Network, and serves on the Board of Directors of the ABTS.
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Session II: Getting to the Root of the Problem
Thursday, January 23, 2025
1:55pm – 2:45pm PT
STS/ASCVTS Joint Session: East Meets West in Innovation
Friday, January 24, 2025
1:00pm – 1:55pm PT
Sunday, January 26, 2025
11:50am – 11:56am PT