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Constantine Mavroudis
Born (1946-07-19) July 19, 1946 (age 78)
Thasos, Greece
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Virginia School of Medicine
OccupationSurgeon
Known forPediatric and congenital heart surgery

Constantine Mavroudis (born July 19, 1946) is an American surgeon known for his work in pediatric and congenital heart surgery. He was formerly the Willis J. Potts Professor of Surgery at Northwestern University and was named Professor Emeritus of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2020.

Early life and education

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Mavroudis was born in Thasos, Greece and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1947. He was raised in Jersey City, New Jersey and graduated from Dickinson High School in 1964. He earned a degree in biological sciences from Rutgers University in 1968 and a medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1973. Mavroudis completed surgical training from the University of California, San Francisco in 1981.[1][2][3]

Career

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In 1981, Mavroudis joined the University of Louisville School of Medicine as a faculty member and later became Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery. In June 1986, he performed one of the earliest successful human infant heart transplant procedures on a 23-day-old boy at Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville.[4][5][6] From 1990 to 2008, he served as Division Director of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago.[7][8] He was the A.C. Buehler Professor of Surgery from 1990 to 2002, and the Willis J. Potts Professor of Surgery from 2002 to 2008 at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.[9][10][11]

Between 2008 and 2011, he chaired the Department of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic.[12][13][14][15] From 2011 to 2019, Mavroudis worked at AdventHealth for Children in Orlando, Florida, where he established and developed the congenital heart surgery program.[1]

In 2020, he was named Professor Emeritus at Johns Hopkins and joined Peyton Manning Children’s Hospital in Indianapolis as Chief of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, where he remained until retiring from clinical practice in 2024.[13][16]

Mavroudis was president of the Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Society from 2004 to 2006, and President of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association in 2002.[17][18] He was inducted into the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 2025.[19]

Publications

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Mavroudis has contributed to over 575 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in the fields of congenital heart surgery, pediatric cardiology, and cardiothoracic surgical techniques.[20][21][22] He has edited surgical textbooks, including Pediatric Cardiac Surgery (5th edition), Atlas of Pediatric Heart Surgery, Atlas of Adult Congenital Heart Surgery, Bioethical Controversies in Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, and Management of Perioperative Complications of Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery.[23][24][25][26][27] He previously served as Deputy Editor for Congenital Heart Surgery at The Annals of Thoracic Surgery and is currently Associate Editor for Cardiology in the Young and Consulting Editor for the World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery.[28][29][30]

References

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  1. ^ a b "A Life's Work of Saving Young Lives | Rutgers University Foundation". rutgersfoundation.org. Retrieved 2025-06-16.
  2. ^ https://www.insidernj.com/press-release/rutgers-university-hall-of-distinguished-alumni-2025-inductees-announced/
  3. ^ Pollard, Garland (2024-05-17). "IN THE SPOTLIGHT: Dr. Constantine Mavroudis, pediatric heart surgeon | Boca Beacon". Retrieved 2025-06-16.
  4. ^ Nelson, Harry (1986-06-14). "Kentucky Infant Gets a New Heart; He Was on List Ahead of Baby Jesse". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2025-06-16.
  5. ^ DeFreeze, Louis (2023-12-22). "Looking back at the history of 100 heart transplants at Norton Children's". Norton Children's. Retrieved 2025-06-16.
  6. ^ Archives, L. A. Times (1995-11-29). "Infant Heart Recipient Dies After 9 1/2 Years". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2025-06-16.
  7. ^ 1991 Report of Center-specific Graft & Patient Survival Rates: Heart, heart lung, lung data. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Health Resources Development, Division of Organ Transplantation. 1992.
  8. ^ "Constantine Mavroudis | Rutgers University Foundation". rutgersfoundation.org. Retrieved 2025-06-16.
  9. ^ http://www.helleniclinkmidwest.org/newsletters/HLMWnumber24.pdf
  10. ^ "Carmel, IN Doctor & Author Publishes Must-Read Memoir". PR Leap. Retrieved 2025-06-16.
  11. ^ "ORCID". orcid.org. Retrieved 2025-06-16.
  12. ^ "The Johns Hopkins Children's Heart Surgery Program at Florida Hospital for Children Opens : Orlando Family Magazine". Retrieved 2025-06-16.
  13. ^ a b "'I've had a lot of firsts': History-making pediatric surgeon brings expertise to Hoosier state". Current Publishing. 2024-06-30. Retrieved 2025-06-16.
  14. ^ Cseper (2008-06-27). "Clinic names head of congenital and pediatric cardiothoracic surgery division". cleveland. Retrieved 2025-06-16.
  15. ^ "Cleveland Clinic hires pediatric heart doc". Crain's Cleveland Business. 2008-06-27. Retrieved 2025-06-16.
  16. ^ "Constantine Mavroudis | CTSNet". www.ctsnet.org. Retrieved 2025-06-16.
  17. ^ https://chss.org/files/CHSS05_FinalProgram.pdf
  18. ^ Mavroudis, Constantine; Backer, Carl L.; Brown, John W.; Williams, William G. (2023-09-01). "The Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society Presidents and Their Contributions". World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. 14 (5): 559–571. doi:10.1177/21501351231181331. ISSN 2150-1351.
  19. ^ "Hall of Distinguished Alumni | Rutgers University Foundation". support.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-16.
  20. ^ Lacour-Gayet, Francois; Jacobs, Jeffrey P.; Clarke, David R.; Maruszewski, Bohdan; Jacobs, Marshall L.; O'Brien, Sean M.; Mavroudis, Constantine (2007-01-01). "Evaluation of the Quality of Care in Congenital Heart Surgery: Contribution of the Aristotle Complexity Score". Advances in Pediatrics. 54 (1): 67–83. doi:10.1016/j.yapd.2007.03.006. ISSN 0065-3101. PMID 17918467.
  21. ^ Mavroudis, Constantine; Gevitz, Melanie; Ring, W. Steves; McIntosh, Charles L; Schwartz, Marc (1999-08-01). "The Society of Thoracic Surgeons national congenital heart surgery database report:: Analysis of the first harvest (1994–1997)". The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 68 (2): 601–624. doi:10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00631-1. ISSN 0003-4975.
  22. ^ "Rutgers Alumni a Fivesome of Excellence | Rutgers University Foundation". support.rutgers.edu. Retrieved 2025-06-16.
  23. ^ "Pediatric Cardiac Surgery [5 ed.] 1119282314, 9781119282310". dokumen.pub. Retrieved 2025-06-16.
  24. ^ Mavroudis, Constantine; Backer, Carl L., eds. (2023). Pediatric cardiac surgery (Fifth ed.). Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons Ltd. ISBN 978-1-119-28231-0.
  25. ^ Mavroudis, Constantine (2020). Bioethical Controversies in Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery. J. Thomas Cook, Constantine D. Mavroudis. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG. ISBN 978-3-030-35660-6.
  26. ^ Mavroudis, Constantine; Jacobs, Jeffrey P. (October 2022). "Bioethics Forum of Cardiology in the Young. Quo Vadis?". Cardiology in the Young. 32 (10): 1541–1543. doi:10.1017/S1047951122002700. ISSN 1047-9511.
  27. ^ Mavroudis, Constantine; Dearani, Joseph A., eds. (2020). Atlas of Adult Congenital Heart Surgery. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. ISBN 978-3-030-14163-9.
  28. ^ "Editorial board". Cambridge Core. Retrieved 2025-06-16.
  29. ^ Mavroudis, Constantine; Ong, Chin Siang; Vricella, Luca A.; Cameron, Duke E. (2023-09-01). "Historical Accounts of Congenital Heart Surgery". World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery. 14 (5): 626–641. doi:10.1177/21501351231186415. ISSN 2150-1351.
  30. ^ Tchervenkov, Christo I.; Jacobs, Jeffrey Phillip; Bernier, Pierre-Luc; Stellin, Giovanni; Kurosawa; Mavroudis, Constantine; Jonas, Richard A.; Cicek, Sertac M.; Al-Halees, Zohair; Elliott, Martin J.; Jatene, Marcelo B.; Kinsley, Robin H.; Kreutzer, Christian; Leon-Wyss, Juan; Liu, Jinfen (December 2008). "The improvement of care for paediatric and congenital cardiac disease across the World: a challenge for the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery". Cardiology in the Young. 18 (S2): 63–69. doi:10.1017/S1047951108002801. ISSN 1467-1107.
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