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Edo Bedzra

Edo K. S. Bedzra, MD, MBA

Children’s Mercy Hospital
Ward Family Heart Center
2401 Gilham Rd
Kansas City , MO  64108
United States
8162343637
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Role: 
Surgeon - Cardiothoracic

Background

Congenital Fellowship: Children's Mercy Hospital 2020

Congenital Fellowship: Medical University of South Carolina 2018-2019

Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency: University of Washington 2012-2018

Harvard Medical School, MD 2012

Harvard Business School, MBA 2012

Oberlin College, BA 2007

Board Certification: American Board of Thoracic Surgery, Congenital Subspecialty

COMMITTEE POSITIONS

Resident Appointee, Society of Thoracic Surgeons Council on Meetings and Education Operating Board 2019-2021

Resident Director, Society of Thoracic Surgeons Board 2017-2019

Member, Society of Thoracic Surgeons Workforce on Thoracic Surgery Resident Issues 2015-Present,

University of Washington House-Staff Association Negotiations Committee 2014-2016

Other Interests

The Failing Fontan Heart Failure and Transplantation Neonatal Surgery Reconstructive Valve Surgery

Research

EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

Reviewer:

Cardiology in the Young

The Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Artificial Organs

ASAIO Journal

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

1. Bedzra EKS, Permut L. “Aortopulmonary Window”. TSRA Decision Algorithms in Cardiothoracic Surgery. Ed. C Louis, 2019. Congenital Heart Surgery Chapter 3

2. Bedzra EKS, Permut L. “Complete Atrioventricular Canal Defects”. TSRA Decision Algorithms in Cardiothoracic Surgery. Ed. C Louis, 2019. Congenital Heart Surgery Chapter 20

3. Landes U, Iakobishvili Z, Vronsky D, Zusman O,…Bedzra EKS,…Russo M. 2019. Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement in Oncology Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis. JACC Cardiovasc Interv. 12 (1): 78-86

4. Bedzra E, Aldea DA, Aldea GS. 2018. Last Gasp Revisited. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 156(6): 2168-2169

5. Bedzra EKS, Dardas TF, Pal JD, Mahr C, Smith JW, Shively K, Cheng RK, SC Masri, Levy WC, Mokadam NA. 2017. Pulmonary function tests do not predict mortality in patients undergoing continuous flow LVAD implantation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 154(6): 1959-1970.e1

6. Bedzra EKS, Wood DE. “Mediastinal Masses”. Current Surgical Therapy, 12th edition. Ed. JL Cameron. Ed. AM Cameron. Philadelphia: Elsevier, 2016. Chapter 160

7. Bedzra EKS, Don CW, Reisman M and Aldea GS. 2014. Transapical Mitral Valve Replacement for Mixed Native Mitral Stenosis and Regurgitation. Ann Thorac Surg. 102(2): e97 - e99

8. Khalpey Z, Bedzra E, Stella, MH and Myers, PO. 2012. Giant vein graft pseudoaneurysm with pulmonary hemorrhage. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 144:e14-e16

9. Gardner H, Bedzra E, Elnahal S. 2011. Ganging up on Cancer: Integrative Research Centers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (A and B). Harvard Business School Case 9-412-029

 

Practice Areas

  • Congenital
  • Congenital