Specialty Areas   Pediatric cardiac surgery with emphasis on neonates and infants   Faculty Appointments   Associate Professor, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1999-present Assistant Professor, SUNY Health Science Center, 1995-present

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Education/Training

• B.A. - Rutgers College, 1982
• M.S. - Physiology, Georgetown University, 1983
• M.D. - Georgetown University School of Medicine, 1983-1987

Societies

• American College of Cardiology
• American College of Surgeons
• American Medical Association

Grants

• American Heart Association, Scientist Development Program, "Organization of Atrial Electrical Activities During Acute Atrial Fibrillation: Study in Patients Post-Open Heart Surgery."
• American Heart Association, Grant-in-Aid, "Gene Expression in Velo-Cardio Facial Syndrome."

Publications- Articles

• Wahl GM, Feins R, Alfieris GM, Bixby, K. Reinfusion of Shed Blood After Coronary Bypass Surgery Causes Elevation of Cardiac Enzymes. Ann Thorac Surg 53(4):625, Apr 1992.
• Alfieris GM, Wing CW, Hoy GR. Securing Broviac Catheters in Children. J Pediatr Surg 22(9):825, Sept 1987.
• Cedarholm JC, Martin SE, Greene R, Oates J, Dunn D, Jones J, Alfieris GM, Churchwell AL, Liberman HA, Eisner RL, Patterson RE. Can SPECT TI-201 Determine the "Aphysiological Significance" of Coronary Stenosis? J Nucl Med 28:666, 1987.
• Portman MA, Panos AL, Xiao Y, Anderson DL, Alfieris GM, Ning XH, Lupinetti FM. Influence of the pH of Cardioplegic Solutions on Cellular Energy Metabolism and Hydrogen Ion Flux During Neonatal Hypothermic Circulatory Arrest and Reperfusion: A Dynamic 31P Nuclear Resonance Study in a Pig Model. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 114(4):601, Oct 1997.
• Mehta P, Cunningham C, Colella C, Alfieris G, Weiner L, Department of Pediatrics and Surgery, SUNY Upstate Medical University at Syracuse. Risk Factors for Sternal Wound and Other Infections in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Patients. Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal 19(10):1000-1004, Nov 2000.
• Ragasta KG, Alfieris GM, Chylothorax: A Novel Therapy. Critical Care Medicine 28(4):1208-09, Apr 2000.
• Steinberg JM, Alfieris GM, Brandt B, Fink G. Treatment of Pulmonary Atriovenous Malformations After Cavopulmonary Anastomosis Utilizing an Extra-Cardiac Hepatic Venous to Hemi-Azygous Bypass. Chest 120(4):174S, 2001.
• Steinberg J, Alfieris GM, Brandt B, Smith F, Byrum C, Fink G, Halter J. New Approach to the Surgical Management of Pulmonary Atriovenous Malformations After Cavopulmonary Anastomosis. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 75(5):1640-2, May 2003.
• Brogan TV, Alfieris GM. Has the Time Come to Rename the Blalock-Taussig Shunt? Pediatric Critical Care and Medicine 4(4):450-453, Oct 2003.
• Conner WC, Fink GW, McGinnis KM, Alfieris GM. Surgical Management of Leiomyosarcoma of the Mediastinum. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 77(1):334-6, Jan 2004.
• Alfieris, GM, Dadlani G, Vermilion R, Smith F, Atallah-Yunes N, Dawson C, Cable R, Orav E, Kozlowski A, Gaum, Lipshultz S. Regional Sharing Optimizes Arterial Switch Outcomes. Progress in Pediatrics Cardiology 20(1), May 2005.

Publications- Abstracts

• Wahl GW, Feins R, Alfieris GM, Bixby K. Reinfusion of Shed Blood After Coronary Bypass Surgery Causes Spurious Elevation of CPK, SGOT, and LDH. Chest 96(2), Aug 1989.
• Sprecher DL, Pierce JS, Carruth H, Alfieris GM, Lakatos E, Brewer HB, Epstein SE, Patterson RE. Influence of a Hypercholesterolemic Diet on the Coronary Vasodilator Response to Histamine in Miniature Pigs. Circ 72(Suppl III):III76, 1985.
• Steinberg JM, Carney DE, McCann UG, Picone AL, Parker FB, Alfieris GM, Meyers SC, Brandt B, Fink GW. Surgical Approach to the Mitral Valve Does Not Affect Perioperative Morbidity. 37th Annual Meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, January 29-31, 2001.

Publications- Book Chapter

• Congential Heart Disease (revision). In Schwartz SI, ed, Principles of Surgery: Companion Handbook, 2nd ed. McGraw-Hill, 1993.

Contact

Dr. George Alfieris
Division of Cardiac Surgery
601 Elmwood Ave, Box SURG
Rochester, NY 14642
Phone: 1-866-HEART-03