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Can Yerebakan

Can Yerebakan, M.D.

Associate Chief, Cardiac Surgery, Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics, Children's National Heart Institute, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
111 Michigan Ave NW
Washington  20010
United States
+1 202 476 6291
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Role: 
Surgeon - Cardiothoracic

Background

Since 2017 Children's National Heart Institute, Cardiovascular Surgery, Washington, DC, USA
2013-2017 Staff Surgeon, Department of Congenital Cardiac Surgery, Pediatric Heart Center Giessen, Giessen, Germany
2010-2012 Clinical Fellowship, Children's National Medical Center, Congenital Cardiac Surgery (Dr. Richard A. Jonas)
2011 Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Medical Faculty, University of Rostock
2009 USMLE Step 3
2008 ECFMG Certification
2006-2010 Adult Cardiac Surgery Residency, University of Rostock, Department of Cardiac Surgery (Prof. Gustav Steinhoff)
2004-2006 Adult Cardiac Surgery Residency, German Heart Institute Berlin, Dept. Thorac. and Cardiovasc. Surgery (Prof. Roland Hetzer)
2002 Research Assistant, Department of Cardiac Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical School, Cardiac Surgery Research Lab
2004 Doctoral thesis, Medical Faculty, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany (Prof. Dr. Friedhelm Beyersdorf)
1997-2004 Medical Faculty, Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

Other Interests

Photography
Politics
Reading

Research

Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (Hybrid Therapy)
Neurological Outcome in Congenital Cardiac Surgery
Experimental Cardiac Surgery (Animal Models for Congenital Cardiac Surgery)
Regenerative Therapies in Congenital Cardiac Surgery
Invasive measurement of ventricular functions (Conductance catheters)

Additional Educational Information

1996-1997 Marmara University Medical School Istanbul, Turkey, Medical English Year 1988-1996 Istanbul Erkek Lisesi (German-Turkish High School), Istanbul, Turkey 

Practice Areas

  • Cardiac
  • Congenital
  • Mechanical circulatory assistance
  • Congenital
  • Adult congenital procedures
  • Heart Transplant