Dr. Carmelo A. Milano is currently Professor and Chief of the Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Duke University. He also serves as the Surgical Director of the Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) Program. He previously served as the Surgical Director for heart transplant at Duke for 18 years and also as Section Chief for adult cardiac surgery. He graduated with a BS degree from the University of Notre Dame in 1986, completed medical school at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine in 1990, and General and Thoracic surgical training at Duke University in 1999.
While in residency, he received the National Research Service Award from the NIH, the Dupont Young Investigators Award from the American College of Chest Physicians and the Pilling-Weck Young Investigators Award. He completed a Thoracic Transplantation Fellowship at Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England.
He joined the faculty at Duke in 1999. His basic research interest is gene therapy approaches to cardiovascular diseases. His clinical interests are in surgical treatments for advanced heart failure, including ventricular assist devices, valve repairs/replacements, coronary artery bypass grafting, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, transplantation and ventricular remodeling procedures.