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Professor of Surgery

Clinical Interests

Pediatric cardiovascular surgery, artificial heart technology, adult congenital cardiothoracic surgery, transplantation heart, and lung, pulmonary autograft (Ross) procedure in infants, children and adults
surgical and postoperative management of HLHS, Surgical education in leadership, teams, communicaton skills and professionalism, neonatal and infant cardiac surgery, brain protection for infants during cardiac surgery,
intraoperative echocardiography

Education

  • MD, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL
  • Physician Executive MBA Program (PEMBA), University of Tennessee, Knowxville, TN
  • Surgical Intern, Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
  • Junior Assistant Resident, Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
  • Research Fellow in Cardiac Surgery, Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
  • Senior Assistant Resident,Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
  • Congenital Heart Surgery Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
  • Chief Resident, Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
  • Teaching Scholar in Cardiac Surgery, Department of General and Thoracic Surgery, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery
  • American Board of Thoracic Surgery – Cardiothoracic Surgery
  • American Board of Thoracic Surgery – Congenital Heart Surgery

Publications

View Dr. Ungerleider’s recent research publications on PubMed.

Q & A

Read Dr. Ungerleider’s interview.

Ross Ungerleider, MD, MBA