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Richard A. Hopkins

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Richard A. Hopkins, M.D.

4 West Tower
2401 Gillham Road
Kansas City, MO  64108
United States

1 816 234-3580
1 816 983-6380 (Fax)

Institutional Affiliation

  • Children's Mercy Hospital, Department of Cardiac Surgery

Specialty

  • Adult Cardiac Surgery
  • Pediatric Cardiac Surgery

Background

  • Duke University (B.A. Chemistry, 1970)
  • Duke University (M.D. 1974)
  • Duke General&Thoracic Surgical Residency (1974-1984)
  • Great Ormond St..Hospital for.Sick Children CardiacSurgery Unit (1984-1985)
  • Chief Pediatric cardiac surgery, Georgetown University (1988-1996 )
  • Karlson Professor & Chief Cardiac Surgery Brown Univ. (1996-2007)
  • Chief Adolescent&Adult Congenital Cardiac Surgery and Director Cardiac Research Laboratories (2007-p

Interests

  • reconstructive cardiac surgery
  • congenital (pediatric & adult)
  • valve salvage
  • valve repairs
  • structural heart disease
  • autografts, allografts, homografts
  • complex cardiac reconstructions
  • valve transplants
  • cell, gene, and tissue engineering
  • bioengineered personal heart valve

Last Modified: 13-Aug-2007

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