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Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center

Duc Thinh Pham, MD


Academic Title:

Assistant Professor, Tufts University School of Medicine

 

Division/Program Title:

Surgical Director, Center for Advanced Heart Failure

 

Office:

800 Washington St., #266
Boston, MA 02111

 

Phone:

617-636-5594

 

Accepting New Patients

 

Fax:

617-636-7616

 

Email Address:

dpham@tuftsmedicalcenter.org

 

Education and Post Graduate Training:

Medical School: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1997
Surgery Internship and Residency: University of North Carolina Hospitals, 1997-2002

Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency: Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 2002-2005

Heart Failure and Transplantation Fellowship: Northwestern Memorial Hospital, 2005-2006

 

Board Certifications:

Surgery

Thoracic Surgery

 

Specialties:

Adult Cardiac Surgery

 

Clinical Interests:

Coronary Artery Surgery

Valvular Repair and Replacement

Aortic Surgery

Arrhythmia Surgery

Cardiac Transplantation

Mechanical Circulatory Support

Minimally Invasive Surgery

 

Research Interests:

STS Database

UNOS Database

INTERMACS Registry

  

Selected Publications:

  1. Starling RC, Naka Y, Boyle AJ, Gonzalez-Stawinksi G, John R, Ulrich J, Russell SD, Conte JV, Aaronsen KD, McGee EC, Cotts WG, DeNofrio D, Pham DT, Farrar DJ, Pagani FD. Results of the post-FDA approval study with a continuous flow left ventricular assist device as a bridge to heart transplantation: a prospective study using the INTERMACS registry. Accepted in J Am Coll Card 2010.
  2. Kiernan MS, Pham DT, DeNofrio D, Kapur N. Management of HeartWare left ventricular device thrombosis using intra-cavitary thrombolytics. Accepted in JCTVS 2010.
  3. Mozes A, DeNofrio D, Pham DT, Homoud MK. Inappropriate ICD therapy due to electromagnetic interference in a patient with a HeartWare HVAD left ventricular assist device. Heart Rhythm. November 17, 2010.
  4. Kapur NK, Pham DT, Loyalka P. Percutaneous veno-arterial extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation: another tool in the interventional-heart failure armamentairum. J Inv Card. August 2010.
  5. McGee EC Jr, Pham DT, Gleason TG:  Chronic Descending Aortic Dissections.  Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.  2005;17:262-7.

Honors/Awards:

  

Professional Affiliations:

Member, Society of Thoracic Surgery

Member, International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation

Associate Fellow, American College of Surgeons

 

Foreign Languages:

Vietnamese, French

 

Gender:

Male