JohnIkonomidisMDPhD, FRCS(C), FACS, FACC, FAHA

Summary

• John Ikonomidis, MD, PhD is Professor and Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
      Dr. Ikonomidis graduated from the University of Toronto Medical School in 1989 and from the University of Toronto General Surgical Program in 1997, also completing a PhD degree in cardiac physiology. Dr. Ikonomidis completed Cardiothoracic Surgical training at Stanford University in June of 2000. Dr. Ikonomidis’ clinical interests include thoracic aortic surgery, transcatheter aortic valve replacement and cardiopulmonary transplantation.
      Dr. Ikonomidis’ NIH-funded basic science research interests include the study of a unique murine model of thoracic aortic aneurysms. In addition, Dr. Ikonomidis studies a multi-institutional ascending thoracic aortic aneurysm tissue bank which is currently yielding information about the etiology of thoracic aortic aneurysms in patients with different risk factors. Other clinical research interests include myocardial protection and intraoperative interrogation of the myocardium.
      Dr. Ikonomidis has 210 publications either in print or in press. He is a member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Western Thoracic Surgical Association, the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association and numerous other societies. He serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cardiac Surgery and Aorta and is Associate Editor of The Journal of the American Heart Association and the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. Dr. Ikonomidis is a past Chair of the Bioengineering, Technology and Surgical Sciences Grant Study Section of the National Institutes of Health.