Christian Charles Shults MD

Christian Shults, MD, is a cardiac surgeon in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at MedStar Washington Hospital Center. He is a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, a member of the American Medical Association, and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons.

Dr. Shults received his medical degree and general surgical training from Georgetown University School of Medicine and the MedStar Washington Hospital Center. During his general surgical training, he spent a year at Harvard Medical School for a research fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he focused on developing novel strategies to treat patients in hemorrhagic shock. He then returned to MedStar as a Chief Resident of General Surgery at MedStar Washington Hospital Center.

After this, Dr. Shults continued his specialty training in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Emory University, where he completed a three-year specialized fellowship focusing on revascularization, complex aortic disease, valvular and transcatheter valvular therapies, as well as all other aspects of cardiac surgery. Next, he traveled to Leipzig, Germany for a visiting fellowship in minimally invasive/transcatheter aortic valve repair at the University of Leipzig Heart Hospital. He returned to the US for an aortic surgery mini-fellowship at the University of Texas-Houston Memorial Hermann Hospital and an endovascular mini-fellowship at the Arizona Heart Hospital Department of Heart & Vascular Surgery.