Pirooz Eghtesady, MD, PhD, FACC, FCCP
Professor Cardiothoracic Surgery & Pediatrics
Additional Titles
- Cardiothoracic Surgeon-in-Chief, St. Louis Children’s Hospital
- Chief, Section of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine
- Co-director, The Heart Center, St. Louis Children’s Hospital
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Board Certifications
- Cardiothoracic Surgery: Board Certified
Pirooz Eghtesady, M.D., Ph.D., the Emerson Chair in Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, is Professor of Surgery and Pediatrics and Chief of the Section of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. Eghtesady is also the Co-Director of The Heart Center at St. Louis Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Eghtesady received his medical and doctoral degrees from the University of California-Los Angeles School of Medicine and served a residency in General Surgery at Stanford University Hospital. Dr. Eghtesady was the resident in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, during which time he completed fellowships at the Broussais Hospital and Marie Lannelongue Hospital , both in Paris. Upon completion of his residency in 2001, he was a fellow in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at the University of California-San Francisco and then Stanford University Hospital. He then joined the faculty at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. During his nine years in Cincinnati, Dr. Eghtesady served as the surgical director of Pediatric Cardiac Transplantation and ultimately as director of the Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery.
Dr. Eghtesady joined the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine in 2011. His clinical expertise is in the surgical management of complex congenital heart disease, cardiac and lung transplantation, and mechanical assist devices for both heart and lung failure.
Dr. Eghtesady’s major areas of research interest focus on the pathogenesis of congenital heart defects, particularly hypoplastic left heart syndrome, fetal cardiac intervention, and patient safety and risk prevention in the cardiac operating room.
Dr. Eghtesady serves on a number of NIH study sections including bioengineering and technology, surgical sciences, and clinical integrative cardiovascular sciences. He is a member of the American Heart Association working group writing national guidelines for safety in the cardiac operating room. He serves on the American Association of Thoracic Surgery scholarship committee and has been an invited speaker throughout the country on safety, including keynote speaker at The Safety Summit 2010.