64. Lung Transplantation Outcomes for Patients with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) Requiring Preoperative ECMO: A Comparison of COVID ARDS and Non-COVID ARDS

Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Surgery, Department of Surgery, Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA, USA; Professor of Surgery, William Maul Measey Chair in Surgery, Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

Specialty interests: Coronary artery bypass surgery including off pump coronary artery bypass and minimally invasive coronary artery bypass, valve repair and replacement, minimally invasive heart valve surgery, Ross procedure, thoracic and thoracoabdominal aortic diseases, endocarditis, cardiac reoperations, adult congenital cardiac surgery, pulmonary thromboendarterectomy, ECMO, LVAD, heart, lung and heart-lung transplantation.

Education and Training: MD and PhD from Kobe University, Kobe, Japan. Advanced cardiac surgery training at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA and thoracic transplant and mechanical circulatory support training at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA. Division Chief of Cardiothoracic Transplantation at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center from 2008 to 2011 and Division Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Temple University Hospital from 2015 to present.

Publications and Speaking: More than 250 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters related to his research in cardiothoracic surgery, and more than 500 presentations at conferences and meetings, including the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Numerous lectures nationally and internationally.

Dr. Mallory Hunt is a clinical PGY5 integrated cardiothoracic surgery resident at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (Penn Medicine).