Vaughn A. Starnes
Expert in heart and lung surgery and transplantation, including for children and newborns
Hastings Distinguished Professor and Chairman
Surgeon-in-Chief, Keck Hospital of USC and USC Norris Cancer Hospital
H. Russell Smith Foundation Chair for Cardiovascular Thoracic Research
Executive Director, Cardiovascular Thoracic Institute
Director, The Heart Institute, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Contact at: (323) 442-5849, (323) 669-4148 or starnes@usc.edu
Expertise:
- adult and pediatric heart
transplantation
- adult and pediatric heart and lung
transplantation
- cardiothoracic surgery
- cardiovascular surgery
- congenital heart defects
- heart surgery in children and newborns
- Recipient, Presidential Medallion, USC, 2008
- President, Western Thoracic Surgical Association, 2003
- Fellow, American College of Chest Physicians
- Listed in latest edition of The Best Doctors in America: Pacific Region
- Chair, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
- Director, Cardiopulmonary Transplantation, University Hospital
- Director, Heart Institute, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles
More:
For more information go to:
http://www.keckhospitalofusc.org/doctor/bio/view/72376
http://www.cts.usc.edu
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