AATS: List of AATS contacts and mentors

List of AATS contacts and mentors

The below list includes names and contacts of AATS members (*denotes a non-member) across the United States and Canada. These mentors have been selected or self-nominated in order to deliver a more personal contact for prospective candidates for Thoracic Surgery residency. They can offer mentorship, recommendations, research opportunities as well as clinical rotations in Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Additionally, Women in Thoracic Surgery offers a web based mentoring program for women interested in the field of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery. More Information...

Thomas V. Bilfinger SUNY Health Science Center Stony Brook, NY TBilfinger@notes.cc.sunysb.edu	Vincent R Conti University of Texas Medical Branch Galveston, TX vconti@utmb.edu	Fred A Crawford Medical University of South Carolina Charleston, SC crawfrdf@musc.edu
Ralph J Damiano Washington Univ School of Medicine St Louis, MO damianor@wustl.edu	Pedro J del Nido Children's Hospital, Cardiac Surgery Boston, MA pedro.delnido@cardio.chboston.org	*Niloo M Edwards University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI edwards@surgery.wisc.edu
David A Fullerton University of Colorado Denver, CO david.fullerton@uchsc.edu	Victor Ferraris University of Kentucky Lexington, KY ferraris@uky.edu	Alexander Geha University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago, IL ageha@uic.edu
*L. Michael Graver Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Long Island New Hyde Park, NY graver@lij.edu	Laman A Gray, Jr. University of Louisville Louisville, KY lgray@ucsamd.com	Lynn H Harrison UMASS-Memorial Medical Center Worchester, MA harril02@ummhc.org
Robert S Higgins Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center Chicago, IL robert_higgins@rush.edu	Gregory Hirsch New Halifax Infirmary Halifax, NS ghirsch@dal.ca	*Ali Khoynezhad University Of Nebraska Medical Center Omaha, NE akhoynezhad@unmc.edu
Leslie Kohman SUNY Upstate Medical University Syracuse, NY kohmanl@upstate.edu	Neal D Kon Wake Forest University School of Medicine Winston-Salem, NC nkon@wfubmc.edu	Robert L Kormos University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Pittsburgh, PA kormosrl@upmc.edu
Mark J Krasna University of Maryland Baltimore, MD mkrasna@smail.umaryland.edu	Irving L Kron UVA Health System Charlottesville, VA ikron@virginia.edu	Kevin Landolfo Medical College of Georgia Augusta, GA klandolfo@mcg.edu
George J Magovern Allegheny General Hospital Pittsburgh, PA gmagover@wpahs.org	P. Michael McFadden University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA mmcfadden@surgery.usc.edu	Walter H Merrill University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH walter.merrill@uc.edu
*Michael R Mill University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC mrm@med.unc.edu	Keith S Naunheim St. Louis University School of Medicine St. Louis, MO naunheim@slu.edu	Mark B Orringer University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI morrin@umich.edu
Bill Putnam Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN bill.putnam@vanderbilt.edu	Joseph F Sabik The Cleveland Clinic Cleveland, OH sabikj@ccf.org	Tomas A Salerno University of Miami School of Medicine Miami, FL tsalerno@med.miami.edu
Frank W Sellke Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston, MA fsellke@bidmc.harvard.edu	Richard J Shemin UCLA Los Angeles, CA rshemin@mednet.ucla.edu	Joseph B. Shrager Stanford University Stanford, CA shrager@stanford.edu
Craig R Smith New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus) New York, NY crs2@columbia.edu	Thoralf M Sundt Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN sundt.thoralf@mayo.edu	Scott Swanson Mount Sinai School of Medicine New York, NY Scott.Swanson@mountsinai.org
Gregory D Trachiotis The George Washington University Medical Center Washington, DC gregory.trachiotis@med.va.gov	Ross Ungerleider Oregon Health Sciences University Portland, OR ungerlei@ohsu.edu	Edward D Verrier University of Washington Seattle, WA edver@u.washington.edu
Kenneth G Warner New England Medical Center Boston, MA kwarner@tufts-nemc.org	Darryl S Weiman University of Tennessee - Memphis Memphis, TN dweiman@utmem.edu