By Ellen M. Hunt
Special to Inside
Constantine Mavroudis, MD, has been named Surgeon-in-Chief and Head of the Department of Surgery at Children's Memorial Hospital. A professor of surgery at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, he has been a member of the Children's Memorial staff since 1989. He will continue as head of the Division of Cardiovascular-thoracic Surgery at Children's Memorial, a position he has held since 1990.
"The selection of Dr. Mavroudis as Surgeon-in-Chief continues the tradition of world-class leadership in surgery at Children's Memorial Hospital," said Thomas P. Green, MD, chairman of the department of Pediatrics at Northwestern's Feinberg School. "Dr. Mavroudis is an innovator and leader in congenital heart surgery, whose contributions to the Fontan procedure and surgical approaches to cardiac rhythm disturbances are known worldwide. All the physicians and surgeons at Children's Memorial Hospital look forward to his leadership."
Mavroudis received his doctor of medicine degree from the University of Virginia, and completed a residency in cardiovascular thoracic surgery and a fellowship in surgical research at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the author of more than 200 journal articles and dozens of book chapters. He is the editor of the textbook "Pediatric Cardiac Surgery," now in its third edition, and has served as an editor of several other textbooks. His particular areas of interest include heart transplantation, congenital heart disease, arrhythmia and coronary artery anomalies.
Mavroudis is active in professional organizations, including the American College of Surgeons, the American Surgical Association, the American Association of Thoracic Surgery, and the American Heart Association. He is immediate past-president of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association and president-elect of the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society, and serves on the board of directors of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. He is a resident of the Near North Side.
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