{"id":2465,"date":"2025-06-25T13:30:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-25T03:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2025-07-08T13:35:33","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T03:35:33","slug":"surgical-management-of-patients-with-hypertrophic-cardiomyopathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rch.org.au\/grandrounds\/2025\/06\/25\/surgical-management-of-patients-with-hypertrophic-cardiomyopathy\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgical management of patients with Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1096488439?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Professor Joseph Dearani from the Mayo Clinic is a world-renowned cardiac surgeon, and expert in management of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. He has accumulated the world\u2019s largest experience with surgical management of these complex patients, and will discuss the lessons.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Professor Joseph Dearani<\/strong> was for the decade until 2020, Director of Pediatric and Adult Congenital Heart Surgery at the Mayo Clinic and is now Sheikh Zayed Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases in the Mayo College of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Dearani hails from Connecticut and completed undergraduate education at Fordham University in New York City (a BA in Biology and Spanish).\u00a0 He did an MD at Georgetown University, and then did General Surgery residency at Georgetown University Medical Center. He spent two years as a surgical research fellow at Harvard Medical School and the Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital in Boston. He completed his Thoracic Surgery residency at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota followed by a Congenital Cardiac Surgery fellowship at Loma Linda University.\u00a0 He has been back at Mayo Clinic since 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Dearani\u2019s works in both pediatric and adult congenital heart surgery. He has specific expertise with Ebstein\u2019s anomaly, heart valve repair, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, robotic heart surgery, challenging multi-redo cardiac surgery, pregnancy and heart disease, and transplantation. He is the author or co-author of some 760 journal articles and over 50 book chapters. His further research interests include innovative valve repair techniques, heart failure and regenerative medicine, which includes stem cell therapies in congenital heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>Prof Dearani has been the President of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, President of The Congenital Heart Surgeons\u2019 Society, President of the Thoracic Surgery Foundation, and Chair of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to his busy clinical practice, he has been devoted to humanitarian outreach activities in pediatric cardiovascular surgery since 1996. He was Medical Director of Children\u2019s Heartlink, an Non-Government Organization devoted to outreach activities in pediatric cardiovascular disease.\u00a0 He has helped develop programs in India, China, Brazil, and Colombia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Joseph Dearani from the Mayo Clinic is a world-renowned cardiac surgeon, and expert in management of patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. 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