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Luca A. Vricella

Luca A. Vricella MD

Pediatric Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America

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Dr. Luca Vricella is the chief of pediatric heart transplantation at Johns Hopkins Medicine as well as the director of pediatric cardiac surgery. Dr. Vricella was born in Rome, Italy and graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Catholic University of Rome Medical School. He moved to the United States and completed training in general surgery at the George Washington University Medical Center, where he was elected Alpha Omega Alpha during his chief residency year.

During this time, he developed a profound interest in the field of congenital cardiac surgery, and pursued a period of clinical and laboratory research training under the direction of Leonard L. Bailey, with the division of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at the Loma Linda University Medical Center.

He then completed a Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship at Stanford University, and subsequently served as Senior Registrar in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, United Kingdom. In 2003 he joined the surgical faculty at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital, where he is currently Associate Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, and Director of the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Heart Transplantation Program.

Dr. Vricella’s clinical and research interests revolve around the field of pediatric cardiac surgery, with emphasis on complex neonatal repair and the care of adults with congenital heart disease. He has also developed a particular interest in aortic root surgery, with a focus on pediatric patients with connective tissue disorders.

Dr. Vricella is Board Certified in General and Cardiothoracic Surgery, and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. He is author and co-author of several articles and book chapters, and is one of the editors of the Johns Hopkins Manual of Cardiothoracic Surgery.
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