Come join Aortic Hope as we present Dr. Pedro Catarino, Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Head of Aortic Surgery at Cedars-Sinai.
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Pedro Catarino, MD, is a cardiothoracic surgeon who graduated from Oxford University Medical School and trained at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London and at Duke University Medical Center in North Carolina. He was director of Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support at Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, England, where he worked for 12 years. He introduced minimally invasive lung transplantation and was responsible for the national implementation of DCD heart transplantation, including in pediatrics. In June 2019, he performed the world’s first DCD heart-lung transplant. His research focuses on the preservation, optimization and assessment of donor organs.
Catarino is also a specialist aortic surgeon and established one of the first dedicated aortic surgery programs in the United Kingdom. He has substantial experience with the frozen elephant trunk procedure and helped to develop continuous normothermic myocardial perfusion during arch surgery. In June 2020, he moved to Cedars-Sinai, where he is director of Aortic Surgery and has particular responsibility to help develop the lung transplant program.
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