Umar Boston

University of Tennessee Health Science Center

Umar Boston is a congenital heart surgeon who specializes in the surgical treatment of infants and children with heart failure. He is Professor of Surgery at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC), USA. He is a co-founder of the Pediatric Heart Transplant Program at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, USA, where he currently serves as the surgical director of pediatric heart transplantation and ventricular assist device (VAD) service. He is nationally recognized for his innovative VAD strategies to bridge infants with failed single-ventricle palliation to heart transplantation. He is a member of numerous surgical societies including the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, the Congenital Heart Surgeons\' Society, and the and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, to name a few.

Umar Boston

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