69. Intravenous Iron Administration Before Cardiac Surgery Reduces Red Blood Cell Transfusion in Non-Anemic Patients

Dr. Ferraris is a native of Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania.  He obtained his undergraduate degree from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania and entered the U.S. Army in 1965.  While in the Army, he earned a doctorate in chemistry at the University of Colorado in Boulder.  He served in the Viet Nam conflict where he was wounded and spent 6 months in the hospital recovering from wounds suffered in Viet Nam.  He went on to complete his medical degree at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia while serving on active duty.  Dr. Ferraris obtained postgraduate training in General Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery in the United States Army.  After retiring from the Army Dr. Ferraris ultimately took a position at the Lexington VA Medical Center University and the University of Kentucky.  He is board certified in Thoracic Surgery, General Surgery, and Surgical Critical Care.  He is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, and of the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, and has been appointed as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery.  

Tom Friedman Is a senior cardiac surgeon at Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, Israel. Tom received his M.D from the Technicon Medical School and completed his residency at Rambam hospital, where he was the chief resident for his last two years of residency. Tom has completed a clinical fellowship at Toronto General Hospital with a focus on heart failure and Aortic surgeries and second fellowship at Sunnybrook hospital in Toronto with a focus on Aortic surgeries. Tom's clinical interests include thoracic aortic and aortic valve surgery and mechanical assist device. During his residency, Tom was a research fellow at a research lab at the Technion faculty of medicine that dealt with the expression of cardiac proteins during cardiac stress. His researches had led to several publications in leading medical journals. Tom recently graduated an international MBA in Healthcare Innovation from the IDC University, Herzliya, Israel,  in Partnership with Sheba Medical Center.