Gerald Murray Lawrie MD, FACS

Dr. Gerald Murray Lawrie, MD, FACS, is a Surgeon at Houston Methodist Hospital. He was born in 1945 in Murwillumbah, Australia, a country town with a population of 15,000. He grew up in Sydney, Australia, attended Scots College, and graduated from The University of Sydney Medical School in 1969. He was a Commonwealth Scholarship Holder throughout medical school and as an undergraduate was awarded the James McRae Yeates Prize for Clinical Surgery.

He continued his surgical education in the Teaching Hospitals of the University of N.S.W between 1969 and 1972 when he left for a year of post-graduate education in England. This included five months at the Institute of Basic Medical Sciences of the Royal College of Surgeons in London. He returned to Australia in 1973 and completed his residency training in thoracic and cardiovascular surgery in Sydney at his previous Teaching Hospitals. During this period, Dr. Michael E. DeBakey was a Visiting Professor in Sydney and invited Dr. Lawrie to spend a year with him in Houston.

His research interests are Cardiac Surgery, Vascular Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiovascular Surgery, Blood Conservation, Aortic Aneurysms, Atrial Septum Defect, Robotic Surgery, Cardiovascular Disease, Carotid Endarterectomy, Coronary Artery Disease, Heart Port Procedure.