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Michael R. Mill, M.D.

Michael R. Mill, M.D., a professor of surgery in the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, has been appointed professor of pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at UNC, effective Dec. 20, 2013. Under the joint appointment, Dr. Mill will teach and do research with the Department of Pediatrics, focusing on congenital cardiac surgery.

Dr. Mill, director of pediatric cardiac surgery at UNC, joined the UNC Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery in 1988 and served as chief of the division for 12 years. He started the heart transplant program at UNC and performed both the first heart-lung transplant and the first pediatric heart-lung transplant in North Carolina. He has served as director of the UNC Comprehensive Transplant Center and as program director of the UNC Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency Program, and has been active in national organizations relating to cardiothoracic surgery and residency training. He recently served as co-investigator on a study funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Improving patient safety in a pediatric service line (grant 05-R18 H5019636-01-02). His clinical interests include neonatal and pediatric heart surgery, pediatric and adult heart and heart-lung transplantation, complex valve repairs, mechanical cardiac assist devices, and surgery for end-stage heart failure. He is listed in the U.S. News and World Report’s “Top Doctors” database and in the “Best Doctors in America” database.