THEME: "Shining a spotlight on global heart health"
Children's Hospital of Georgia, United States
Title: Globalization of Congenital Heart Disease, establishment of a global platform of outcomes following congenital heart surgery
James St. Louis
currently holds the J.? Harold Harrison Endowed Chair of Surgery at the Augusta
University, University of Georgia Health System. He serves as the Chief of Pediatric and
Congenital Heart Surgery at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia and Co-director
of the Pediatric and Congenital Heart Program. After completing medical school
at Georgetown University School of Medicine, he accepted a cardiothoracic
residency at Duke University under David Sabiston.. He has been practicing
congenital heart surgery for the last twenty year. His clinical expertise has
focused on optimizing surgical outcomes with neonatal heart defects. Dr. St.
Louis’s most recent academic efforts
have focused on international outcomes of congenital heart surgery