Biography:
Dr. James St. Louis currently holds the J. Harold Harrison Endowed Chair of Surgery at the Augusta University, University of Georgia Health System. He serves as the Chief of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery at the Children’s Hospital of Georgia and Co-director of the Pediatric and Congenital Heart Program. After completing medical school at Georgetown University School of Medicine, he accepted a cardiothoracic residency at Duke University under Dr.David Sabiston. He has been a practicing congenital heart surgery for the last twenty year. His clinical expertise has focused on optimizing surgical outcomes with neonatal heart defects. Dr. St. Louis’s most recent academic efforts have focused on international outcomes of congenital heart surgery.
2023 American association for thoracic surgery expert consensus document— Recommendation for the care of children with trisomy 13 or trisomy 18 and a congenital heart defect