• Patient Care
• 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) 293-7277

• 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

J. Terrance Davis, M.D.
Professor Emeritus of Clinical Surgery
Nationwide Children's Hospital
700 Children's Drive, 635 EDU
Columbus, OH 43205-2664
(614) 722-3100

• B.A.: Williams College, Williamstown, MA, 1963
• M.D.: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1967
• Specialty Training: University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
• Appointment: 1991
• Specialty Interests: Pediatric cardiac surgery
• Research Interests: Organization of cardiothoracic care

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

• M.D.: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, Cleveland, OH
• Specialty Training: General surgery residency, University Hospitals of Cleveland, Cleveland, OH.; cardiothoracic surgery fellowship, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• Appointment: 2007
• Specialty Interests: Adult acquired and congenital cardiac surgery, cardiothoracic critical care, mechanical assist devices, heart failure
• Research Interests: Cardiac imaging and physiology, mechanical assist devices

Mark Galantowicz, M.D.
Associate Professor of 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

Gerard S. Kakos, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor Emeritus of Surgery
N-827 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 293-4558

• B.A.: The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1964
• M.D.: The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 1967
• Specialty Training: Duke University, Durham, N.C.; The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• Appointment: 2002
• Specialty Interests: Valve and aortic surgery

Pawel Kwiatkowski, M.D.
Research Scientist
205 Wiseman Hall
400 West 12th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210-2207
(614) 688-7970

• B.A.: ILO Swietochlowice, Poland, 1982
• M.D.: Silesian Academy of Medicine, Katowice, Poland, 1988
• Specialty Training: Silesian Academy Medical Center, Zabrze, Poland; Columbia University, New York, NY
• Appointment: 1998
• Research Interests: Transplant immunology, including xenotransplantation and allotransplantation of heart and lung

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

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)
Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery
N-816 Doan Hall
410 West 10th Avenue
Columbus, OH 43210
(614) 293-7277

• 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 training,Yale-affiliated residency in Bridgeport and Waterbury, CT; cardiothoracic surgery fellowship, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• Appointment: 2003
• Specialty Interests: Aortic surgery, heart failure, mechanical assist devices and heart transplantation

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

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

• B.A.: "St. Sava" National College, Bucharest, Romania, 1988
• M.D.: University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Targu-Mures, Romania, 1995
• Specialty Training: General surgery residency, Medical College of Virginia Hospitals, Richmond, VA; cardiothoracic surgery fellowship, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
• Appointment: 2006
• Specialty Interests: Thoracic oncology, lung transplant, esophageal 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