Expert Help Panel

Here’s just a few of the doctors that I have contacted and are willing to help with questions and provide medical help:

David H. Liang, MD., Phd

Cardiologist, Thoracic Surgeon

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Center for Marfan Syndrome

Stanford University Medical Center (not to mention a MIT degree too!)

Cardiovascular Medicine

Dr. Alan Hall

Cardiothoracic Surgery

He’s head of the Aortic Clinic at Virginia Mason in WA. State.

Rob Rogers, M.D, FAAEM, FACEP, FACP

Emergency Room Doctor

Assistant Professor of Surgery and Medicine

Director of Medical Student Education

Associate EM Residency Director

Director, Combined EMIM Residency

University of Maryland School of Medicine

Craig R. Smith, MD, FACS

Cardiothoracic Surgery

Dr. Edward Chen

Cardiothoracic Surgery

Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine

Dr. Allen Stewart

Cardiothoracic Surgery

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia

Milstein Hospital Bldg Room 7-435

177 Fort Washington Avenue

New York, NY   10032

Phone: 212-305-4980

Fax: 212-305-2439

as2276@columbia.edu

Dr. Daniel F. Neuzil, MD

Vascular Surgeon

Specialties – Surgery, Vascular Surgery, General Surgery

Dr. Joseph Lombardi, MD FACS

Vascular Surgery

Chief, Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Cooper University Hospital,

Camden, NJ

Lombardi-Joseph@Cooperhealth.eduPhone: 856-968-7067

John A. Kaufman, M.D.

Vascular/Interventional Radiology

Michael Sheehan

Nurse Practitioner for Thoracic Aortic Surgery

Stanford University Medical Center

300 Pasteur Drive

2nd Floor, Falk Building

Stanford, CA 94305-5407 

Phone:  650-725-0524

Fax:  650-725-3846

James F. Giglio, MD, FACEP

Chief of Emergency Medicine

Chief of Emergency Medicine

Columbia University Medical Center

NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital

622 West 168th Street, PH 137

New York, NY 10032

Phone: 212-305-2995

Fax: 212-305-6792

Dr. Maurizio Miglietta

Chief, Division of Acute Care Surgery

Trauma, Critical Care, and Emergency Surgery NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital / Columbia

Phone: 212-342-1734

Fax: 212-342-5954

Christoph A. Nienaber MD, FACC, FESC

Head Division of Cardiology & Vascular Medicine

University Hospital Rostock

E.-Heydemann Strasse 8

18057 Rostock, Germany

Phone: ++49 (0)381 494 7700

Fax: ++49 (0)381 494 7702

24h-tel: ++49 (0) 381 494 2222 (emergency/cardiology/anytime)

christoph.nienaber@med.uni-rostock.de

Van Tran-Fadulu, MS, CGC

Genetic Counselor/Assistant Professor

University of Texas HSC-Medical School

Department of Internal Medicine

Division of Medical Genetics

6431 Fannin St., MSB 6.100

Houston, Texas 77030

Phone: 713-500-6865 or 713-500-6715

Fax: 713-500-0693

Dianna Milewicz, M.D., Ph.D.

Director, Professor, President George Bush Chair in Cardiovascular Medicine

Phone: 713-500-6715

Fax: 713-500-0693

Dianna.M.Milewicz@uth.tmc.edu

Gabriele Di Luozzo, M.D.

Assistant Professor Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Mount Sinai Medical Center

1190 Fifth Avenue, Box 1028

New York, New York 10029

Randall B. Griepp, MD

Professor Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery Mount Sinai Medical Center

1190 Fifth Avenue, Box 1028

New York, New York 10029

Richard Paul Cambria, MD

Professor of Surgery Harvard Medical School Chief, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Joseph S. Coselli, MD

Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and a Professor of Surgery in the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine

Dr. Coselli’s clinical expertise is in cardiothoracic and vascular surgery. He specializes in diseases of the aorta. Dr. Coselli has performed over 2,000 repairs of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysms and is the world’s most successful surgeon in this field.

Richard M. Green, M.D.

Chairman Department of Surgery Lenox Hill Hospital

100 E. 77th St

NY, NY 10021

Vaughn A. Starnes, M.D.

Hastings Distinguished Professor and Chairman Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine

Dr. Richard “Chip” McCollum

Department of Emergency Medicine Frankford Hospitals – Jefferson Health System

4900 Frankford Avenue – Suite 2900

Philadelphia, PA 19124

Gabriel Aldea, MD

Professor Chief Adult Cardiac Surgery University of Washington