• Administrative Staff

Faculty

Benjamin C. Sun, M.D.
Associate Professor of Surgery; Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery; Director, Cardiac Transplantation and Mechanical Support
N-847 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 293-4558

• B.S.: Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1984
• M.D.: State University of New York, Stony Brook, NY, 1989
• Specialty Training: University of North Carolina Hospitals, Chapel Hill, NC; Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY
• Appointment: 2002
• Specialty Interests: Heart transplantation
• Research Interests: Direct mechanical ventricular actuation

Juan A. Crestanello, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
N-816 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 293-8866

• M.D.: University of the Republic of Uruguay Medical School, Montevideo, Uruguay
• Specialty Training: General surgery residency, University of Maryland Medical System, Baltimore, MD; cardiothoracic surgery research, Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA, and University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
• Appointment: 2004
• Specialty Interests: Cardiac surgery
• Research Interests: Ischemic preconditioning, mitochondrial function during ischemic preconditioning, myocardial ischemia reperfusion injury, cell transplantation, the effect of myocardial oxygen content on survival of transplanted cells

Michael S. Firstenberg, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
N-820 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 366-7414

• A.B.: University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill., 1990
• M.D.: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 1996
• Specialty Training: Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD; University Hospitals, Cleveland, OH
• Appointment: 2007
• Specialty Interests: Cardiothoracic surgery
• Research Interests: Noninvasive assessment of cardiovascular physiology

Mark Galantowicz, M.D.
Associate Professor of Clinical Surgery, Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Nationwide Children's Hospital
700 Children's Drive, 636 ED
Columbus, OH 43205-2664
(614) 722-3103

• B.A.: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1982
• M.D.: Cornell University Medical College, New York, NY, 1987
• Specialty Training: Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY
• Appointment: 2002
• Specialty Interests: Pediatric transplantation and surgery

Edmund S. Kassis, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
N-839 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43221-3502
(614) 293-4509

• B.S.: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1992
• M.D.: University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., 1999
• Specialty Training: Residency in general surgery, the Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore, Md.; residency in thoracic surgery, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas
• Appointment: 2009
• Specialty Interests: Cardiothoracic surgery

Louis B. Louis, IV, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
N-831 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, Ohio 43210-1228
(614) 293-4558

• B.S.: Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., 1994
• M.D.: University of Miami, Miami, Fla., 1998
• Specialty Training: Residency in general surgery, University of Miami, Miami, Fla.; fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery, Ohio State University Medical Center, Columbus, Ohio
• Appointment: 2007
• Specialty Interests: Cardiothoracic surgery, mechanical circulatory support
• Research Interests: Cardiothoracic surgery, mechanical circulatory support

Susan D. Moffatt-Bruce, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
N-839 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 293-4509

• B.S.: McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 1990
• M.D.: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, 1994
• Ph.D.: University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 1999
• Specialty Training: General surgery residency, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
• Appointment: 2006
• Specialty Interests: Lung transplantation, heart transplantation, transplant outcomes, thoracic oncology
• Research Interests: Transplant Immunology  

Sampath Parthasarathy, Ph.D., M.B.A.
The Karl P. Klassen Professor of Surgery; Director of Research, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Professor of Internal Medicine
N-850 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 292-5572

• Ph.D.: Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
• Specialty Training: Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan; Duke University, Durham, NC; the Hormel Institute, University of Minnesota, Austin, MN; University of California, San Diego, CA; Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, LA
• Appointment: 2006
• Research Interests: Atherosclerosis, vascular biology, oxidative stress, antioxidants and macrophage biology

Alistair B. M. Phillips, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Nationwide Children's Hospital
700 Children's Drive, 642 ED
Columbus, OH 43205-2664
(614) 722-3101

• B.S.: The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, 1990
• M.D.: Columbia University, New York, NY, 1994
• Specialty Training: Residency in general and cardiothoracic surgery, New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York, NY; Fellowship in pediatric cardiac surgery, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
• Appointment: 2006
• Specialty Interests: Pediatric cardiothoracic surgery, adult congenital heart surgery, transplantation of the heart, heart/lung, and lung, electrophysiology and valvular heart disease

Patrick Ross, Jr., M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Clinical Surgery
N-839 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 293-4509

• A.B.: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, 1977
• M.D., Ph.D.: St. Louis University, St. Louis, MO, 1983
• Specialty Training: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
• Appointment: 1991
• Specialty Interests: Lung volume reduction, thoracic surgical oncology, benign noncardiac thoracic disease, lung transplantation
• Research Interests: New modality lung cancer therapy

Chittoor B. Sai-Sudhakar, M.B.B.S., F.A.C.S., F.R.C.S. (Edinburgh), F.R.C.S. (Glasgow)
Assistant Professor of Surgery
N-816 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 293-9327

• B.A.: Loyola College, Madras, India, 1975
• B.Sc.: Presidency College, Madras, India, 1976
• M.B.B.S.: Stanley Medical College, Madras, India, 1982
• Specialty Training: General surgery residency, United Kingdom, Yale-affiliated residency, Bridgeport and Waterbury, CT; cardiothoracic surgery fellowship, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 
• Appointment: 2003
• Specialty Interests: Mechanical assist devices, heart transplantation, aortic surgery, heart failure

John H. Sirak, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery
N-820 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 293-5502

• B.A.: Amherst College, Amherst, MA, 1985
• M.D.: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, 1991
• Specialty Training: General surgery residency, minimally invasive cardiothoracic surgery fellowship, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; arrhythmia surgery fellowship, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
• Appointment: 2004
• Specialty Interests: Surgery for atrial fibrillation
• Research Interests: Transplant immunology

Paul A. Vesco, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
N-831 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 293-4558-Cardiac or (614) 293-4509-Thoracic

• M.D.: University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington, KY, 1997
• Specialty Training: General surgery residency, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA.; cardiothoracic surgery fellowship, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• Appointment: 2008
• Specialty Interests: Minimally invasive robotic cardiac and thoracic surgery
  

Thomas E. Williams, Jr., M.D., Ph.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Surgery
N-827 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 293-4558

• B.A.: Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1957
• M.S., M.D.: The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1963
• Ph.D.: Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 1969

Research Faculty and Staff

Sampath Parthasarathy, Ph.D, MBA
Klassen Chair and Professor
Director of Cardiothoracic Research Initiatives
Phone : (614) 292-5572
FAX : (614) 292-9259
Email: spartha@osumc.edu

Pawel Kwiatkowski, M.D.
Research Assistant Professor
Phone: (614) 688-7970
FAX: (614) 688-3237
Email: pawel.kwiatkowski@osumc.edu

Angela Phillips
Research Associate 2-B/H
Phone: (614) 688-7970
FAX: (614) 688-3237
Email: angela.phillips@osumc.edu

Krithika Selvarajan
Graduate Research Associate
Phone : (614) 247-4466
FAX : (614) 292-9259
Email: krithika.selvarajan@osumc.edu