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About
Personal Statement
Formerly served at the Ann & Robert Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago, where he served as the surgical director of the pediatric heart transplant program and the A.C. Buehler Professor of Surgery since 2001. He has been an attending surgeon in the division of cardiovascular-thoracic surgery since 1988, and served as head of that division from 2008 to 2018. Currently serving as president of the Mayo Alumni Association, Director with the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, Past President of the Congenital Heart Surgeons Society, Fellow for the American Surgical Association and the American Heart Association, The governing council for the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery.
Dr. Backer has authored more than 400 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and edited six textbooks on cardiac surgery.
Faculty Rank
Professor of Pediatric Cardiothoracic SurgeryDegree
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Residency
Cardio Thoracic Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
General Surgery, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
Fellowship
Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Certifications and Special Training
American Board of Surgery
American Board of Thoracic Surgery
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Locations
Pediatric Cardiology
Kentucky Children's Hospital Congenital Heart Clinic
Kentucky Clinic
740 S. Limestone
Second Floor, Wing D, Room L203
Lexington, KY 40536Fax 859-323-3499Call 859-413-4228
This is a clinic of the University of Kentucky Hospital, also known as UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital. Read more »
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