Executive Director, Betty Irene Moore Children's Heart Center | Lawrence Crowley, MD, Endowed Professor in Child Health | Professor
Thoracic Surgery
“It's extremely rewarding to correct heart defects in young babies and children.”
I'm a pediatric cardiac surgeon. Every day, I go into the operating room and perform surgical procedures that correct serious and sometimes life-threatening heart defects in young babies and children.
I love my field, because a child can arrive with a 1 percent chance of survival and, because of my expertise, I can turn that into a 99 percent survival rate. It's extremely rewarding work.
Most of the children we operate on are young, and their parents are unprepared emotionally to learn their newborn baby has a heart defect or to hear the words "life-threatening." My approach is to make them feel as comfortable as possible by explaining to them that this is routine work for us. This is what we do best, so know that you will get through this and your baby will be fine.
725 Welch Road, Suite 120
Palo Alto, CA 94304
Phone : (650) 497-8000
Fax : (650) 725-0707
Bloodless Surgery
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Coronary Anomalies
Marfan Syndrome
Tetralogy of Fallot
Transposition of the Great Arteries (TGA)
Unifocalization
Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, 06/30/1978
UCSF Dept of General Surgery, San Francisco, CA, 06/30/1986
UCSF Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship, San Francisco, CA, 06/30/1988
UCSF Dept of General Surgery, San Francisco, CA, 06/30/1979
Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery, American Board of Thoracic Surgery, 2002
Congenital Cardiac Surgery, American Board of Thoracic Surgery, 2016
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