Christopher Caldarone

Christopher Caldarone, M.D. The Hospital for Sick Children 555 University Avenue Toronto, ON  M5G 1X8 Canada 1 416 813-6420 1 416 813-7984 (Fax)

Specialty

• Adult Cardiac Surgery
• Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Background

• Professor and Chair, Division of Cardiac Surgery, University of Toronto (2009)
• Hospital for Sick Children/University of Toronto (2003-present)
• Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education Alley-Sheridan Fellow (2002)
• Director of Congenital Heart Surgery/University of Iowa (1998-2003)
• Hospital for Sick Children/Univ of Toronto (Clinical Fellow 1996-1997)
• Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School (Senior Assistant Resident 1995)
• New England Deaconess/Harvard Medical School (Cardiothoracic Surgery 1995-1998)
• New England Deaconess/Harvard Medical School (General Surgery 1988-1995)
• Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (M.D. 1988)
• Johns Hopkins University (B.S. 1983)

Interests

• Neonatal and adult congenital heart surgery
• Total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage
• Mitral valve repair/replacement in infants and children
• Subaortic obstruction
• Postoperative neonatal myocardial apoptosis
• Aortic valve repair
• Hybrid procedures
• remote ischemic preconditioning