Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili, MD, FACS

Associate Professor
Director, Thoracic Surgery Fellowship Program

Vakhtang Tchantchaleishvili, MD

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College Building, Suite 607
Philadelphia, PA 19107

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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

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 –