James Tatoulis

James Tatoulis, MB,BS,MS,MD

Surgeon - Cardiothoracic
Royal Melbourne Hospital, University of Melbourne, Melbourne Private Hospital

University of Melbourne (MBBS 1972)
Surgical Residency, Royal Melbourne Hospital (1973 -1979)
Fellow, Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (1979)
Cardiopulmonary Fellow, University of Oregon (1980)
Senior Cardiac Surgery Resident, Case Western Reserve, Cleveland (1981)
National Heart Foundation Fellow (1981-1982)
Master of Surgery (1999), Doctorate in Medicine (2008), University of Melbourne
Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Royal Melbourne Hospital (1988 – current)
Professor of Surgery, University of Melbourne (2008)
Chief Medical Adviser, National Heart Foundation of Australia (2007 – current)

Total arterial coronary revascularisation
Post-graduate teaching
Clinical research
Reconstructive valve surgery
Off-pump coronary surgery (total arterial)
Radial artery use in coronary surgery
Bilateral internal mammary artery use