Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili, MD, FACS
Associate Professor
Director, Thoracic Surgery Fellowship Program
Contact
Academic Office
1025 Walnut Street
College Building, Suite 607
Philadelphia, PA 19107
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215-955-6996
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Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili, MD, FACS
Associate Professor
Director, Thoracic Surgery Fellowship Program
Education
Medical School
Tbilisi State Medical University, Georgia - 2005
Internship
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Tbilisi State Medical University
Residency
University of Minnesota Hospital & Clinic
University of Rochester School of Medicine (Cardiothoracic Surgery)
Fellowship
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Mayo Clinic, MN (Mechanical Circulatory Support & Cardiac Transplantation)
Publications
- Comparative Outcomes of Surgical and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: A Meta-analysis and Parametric Extrapolation of Clinical Trials
- Surgeon and Hospital Factors Associated With Outcomes in the New York State Database
- Pioneer interview with Victor Poirier: Edward Teller's contribution to the development of artificial heart technology
- Association of Heart Transplant Volume with Presence of Lung Transplant Programs and Heart Transplant's SRTR One-year Survival Rating
- Utility of Recipient Cardiothoracic Ratio in Predicting Delayed Chest Closure after Heart Transplantation
Board Certification
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Awards
- Dean's Award for Excellence in Education 2024
- ISHLT/O.H. Frazier Award in Mechanical Circulatory Support Translational Research 2021
- C. Walton Lillehei / Earl Bakken Prize, Lillehei Surgical Society 2017
- Society of Thoracic Surgeons President's Award for best scientific abstract by a resident or young investigator 2017
- Paul Malchesky Fellowship for Young Innovators, American Society for Artificial Internal Organs 2015
Editorial Experience
- Artificial Organs
Editor-in-Chief: 2021 –