Residency

• Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1995, Surgery
• Brigham And Women's Hospital, 1998, Thoracic Surgery
• Brigham And Women's Hospital, 1996

Medical Education

• Harvard Medical School Harvard University, 1987

Certifications

• American Board of Thoracic Surgery-Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery

Publications

Professional Organizations

• Extracorporeal Life Support Organization
• Society of Thoracic Surgeons
• Heart Failure Society of America
• American Society for Artificial Internal Organs
• International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
• International Society for Heart/Lung Transplantation (Pulmonary and MCS Councils)

Presentations

• Steiner J, Ennis S, Camuso J, Milley K, D’Alessandro D, Garcia JP, Lewis G. Predicting success – LVAD weaning protocol utilizing comprehensive cardiopulmonary exercise testing to define cardiac reserve capacity. ISHLT Washington DC, April 2016.
• Thomas SS, Lewis G, Semigran MJ, Rosenfield K, Gallagher RM, Steiner JK, Cudemus D, Gaston A, Roy N, Palacios IF, Elmariah S, Song TH, Garcia JP. Successful capture of LVADEmboli using carotid filters following intra-cavitary thrombolysis for pump thrombosis. ISHLT Washington DC, April 2016.
• Evrard SE, Milley K, Camuso JM, Schultz KE, English P, Song TH, Garcia JP. The Relationship between Staff Education and Mortality in Patients with ECMO. EuroELSO. Regensburg, Germany, May 2015.
• Thomas SS, Song TH, Milley K, Camuso J, McEachern K, Shah RV, Carroll BJ, Ennis S, MacGillivray TE, Baker JN, Semigran MJ, Lewis GD, Garcia JP. Outcomes in Patients with Venous Arterial Extra-Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation as a Bridge to Left Ventricular Assist Device Therapy. EuroELSO. Regensburg, Germany, May 2015.
• Anderson M, Goldstein J, Morris L, Milano C, Kormos R, Bhama J, Kapur N, Bansal A, Garcia J, Silvestry S, Holman W, O'Neill W. A Prospective Multicenter Study to Evaluate Safety and Probable Benefit of a Novel Percutaneous Ventricular Assist Device for Right Ventricular Failure: The RECOVER RIGHT Study. 35th ISHLT Annual Meeting. Nice, France, April 2015.
• Irwin L, Semigran M, Garcia J, Fishman J, Haggan C, Keck S. Decreasing Heart Transplant Surveillance Biopsies: A Model to Improve Patient Satisfaction, Safety, and Health Care Savings. Transplant Management Forum. San Diego, CA, April 2015.
• Mastrobuoni S, Poncelet A, Dell’Aquilla A, Jacqet L, Garcia J. Are Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices (CF-LVAD) on track to compete with Heart Transplantation? A propensity-score matched analysis of CF-LVAD versus Heart Transplant for patients in United Network for Organ Sharing status II (UNOS-II). Society of Thoracic Surgeons. San Diego, CA, January 2015.
• Carroll B, McCullough S, Shah R, Lewis G, Camuso J, Carlson W, Parks K, Moore S, NewtonCheh C, Sarswat N, Song T, Macgillivray T, Melnitchouk S, Sundt T, Semigran M, Baker J, Garcia J. Survival after VA ECMO Support is dependent on underlying etiology of cardiogenic shock. American Heart Association Scientific Session. Chicago, IL, November 2014.
• Mastrobuoni S, Dell’Aquilla A, Garcia J. Are Continuous-Flow Left Ventricular Assist Devices (CF-LVAD) on track to compete with Heart Transplantation? A propensity-score matched analysis of CF-LVAD versus Heart Transplant for patients in United Network for Organ Sharing status II (UNOS-II). American Heart Association Scientific Session. Chicago, IL, November 2014.

Awards

• America’s Top Surgeons – Consumer’s Research Council of America, 2011-15
• National Medical Fellowship – Harvard Medical School Academic achievement, 1985
• Howard B. Sprague Award – American Heart Association, Most Outstanding Surgical Research Grant, 1992
• Student Research Award – American Gastroenterological Association, Best Student Abstract, 1984
• Outstanding Young Texan Award – University of Texas at Austin, Overall community and academic achievement, 1979