Four new faculty members have joined the Division of Cardiac Surgery. Thomas Matthew, M.D., has been named director of Johns Hopkins Cardiothoracic Surgery at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland. Matthew, who previously worked for University of Colorado Health, has surgical interests in complex coronary artery surgical revascularization, mitral valve repair, reoperative cardiac surgery and aortic valve replacement, including transcatheter aortic valve replacement.

Ahmet Kilic, M.D., a new associate professor, comes to Johns Hopkins from The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, where he was director of the heart transplant and mechanical circulatory support programs and co-director of the advanced heart failure program. He was also vice director for clinical and academic affairs for the Division of Cardiac Surgery. Kilic is an active heart failure clinical investigator.

Chun (Dan) Choi, M.D., and Stefano Schena, M.D., Ph.D., have joined the department as assistant professors. Choi previously was with Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he served as director of the ex-vivo heart perfusion program. His research interests include perfusion, clinical and surgical outcomes, heart failure and surgical innovation.

Schena comes to Johns Hopkins from Washington University School of Medicine. His clinical interests include minimally invasive coronary and valve surgery, thoracic and cardiovascular trauma, endovascular surgery, surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation, and video-assisted and robotic thoracic surgery.

HONORS

Gordon Tomaselli, M.D., professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Cardiology, was recently named the next editor-in-chief of The Journal of Clinical Investigation. He will serve a five-year term with an editorial board of peer scientists based at Johns Hopkins.

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