Faculty

Quality

• Top 10 in the nation US News and World Report
• Best outcomes (O/E) in the nation per STS public reporting

Experience

• 440+ congenital cardiac index cases in 2023
• 10th largest program in the US
• 20+ Norwood operations per year since 2022 – Top 5 in US

Innovation

• World’s 1st partial heart transplant
• World’s 1st thymus-heart co-transplant
• North America’s 1st pediatric DCD transplant
• STAR perfusion Norwood and arch surgery
• Minimally invasive congenital heart program
  • Robotic ASD’s
  • LAMI PVRs

Collaboration

• Partnership with East Carolina since 2018
• Partnership with University of North Carolina since 2022

Infrastructure

• Large animal vivarium
• Cardiopulmonary bypass cases weekly
• Congenital Heart Surgery Research and Training Lab
  • 1600 sq ft facility
  • 7 CPB machines adjacent to vivarium
  • 30+ publications per year

Innovation

Projects

• Thymus-heart co-transplantation for tolerance
• Partial heart transplant
• Early bioprosthetic heart valve degradation in alpha gal sensitized patients
• Xenotransplantation
• Marfan syndrome aneurysm pathways

Funding (Active)

• Department of Defense
• NIH
• ISHLT
• Marfan Foundation
• Brett Boyer Foundation
• Graeme McDaniel Foundation

Institutional Expertise

• Strong transplant immunology collaborators