Dr. Emile Bacha is a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon with a subspecialization in pediatric cardiac surgery. From 2000-2004, he was the Surgical Director of the Congenital Heart Center at the University of Chicago. From 2004-2009, he was Senior Associate in Cardiac Surgery at the Children’s Hospital Boston and Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, as well as Cardiac Surgery Fellowship Program Director, and Director of the Pediatric Heart Valve Center.
Since January 2010, Dr. Bacha has been Director of the Congenital and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery program at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Weill Cornell Medical School. In July 2011, he was appointed Chief of the Division of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center.
Board Certificates :
- Surgery, Thoracic Cardiovascular.
- Cardiac Surgery.
- Congenital Cardiac Surgery.
- Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery.
Affiliations:
- NewYork-Presbyterian/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital.
- NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia.
- Komansky Center for Children’s Health.
- NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell.
Expertise :
- Congenital Heart Disease.
- Congenital Heart Disorder.
- Congenital Heart Disease In Adult.
- Congenital Heart Failure.
- Congenital Heart Block.
- Adult Congenital Heart Disease.
Honors and Awards:
- 2015-2016: New York Magazine’s Top Doctors.
- 2013-2016: Election to STS Board of Directors, Director-at-Large.
- 2012: ‘Distinguished Visiting Professor’, ‘Minimally-Invasive Pediatric Cardiac Surgery.
- 2011: New York Metro Area’s Top Doctors by Castle Connolly.
- 2011: Elected Associate Editor, The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
- 2009: TSFRE (Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education) Education Award Recipient.
- 2008: Invited Keynote speaker: 1. Borderline left ventricle, 2. Hybrid Procedures in Congenital Heart Surgery.
- 2007: Visiting Professor: Myocardial protection and Cardiopulmonary bypass in the neonat.
- 2006: Invited Keynote Speaker: “Hybrid procedures in pediatric cardiac surgery at: Korean Society of Circulation, Seoul, South Korea.
- 2005:Invited Keynote speaker Hybrid Approaches to HLHS at: 4th Charleston Mini-Symposium on Congenital Heart Disease.
- 2004: Visiting Professorship, Update on Congenital Heart Surgery at: The Alexandria Military Hospital
- 1998: Finalist, Young Investigators Award, European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.
- 1995: Simone et Cino del Duca Foundation Research Award.
- 1985-1989: Scholar of the German National Scholarship Foundation.