David C. Mcgiffin MD

Professor David McGiffin graduated from the University of Queensland Medical School and subsequently interned and trained in General Surgery at Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane before going on to train in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Prince Charles Hospital. In 1982, Professor McGiffin went to the United States as a Fulbright Scholar and undertook a Fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He joined the faculty at the University of Alabama but returned to Australia in 1986 to work at The Prince Charles Hospital where he did adult and pediatric cardiac surgery and also set up the Queensland Heart Transplant Program. In 1992, Professor McGiffin returned to the University of Alabama at Birmingham. At UAB, his clinic duties included the full range of adult cardiac surgery, adult and pediatric heart transplantation, and adult lung transplantation. He commenced a pulmonary endarterectomy program for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.