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UI Heart and Vascular Care

da Vinci Surgical System

Department of Surgery

Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center

University of Iowa Children's Hospital

Douglas M. Behrendt, MD

Medical School:
Harvard Medical School, Boston,

Internship:
Massachusetts General, Boston, MA

Residency:
Massachusetts General, Boston, MA
National Heart Institute, Bethesda, MD
Hospital for Sick Children, London, England
 

Certification:
American Board of Surgery
American Board of Thoracic Surgery 

Societies, Organizations and Honors:
American College of Surgeons
American College of Chest Physicians
Society of University Surgeons
Society of Thoracic Surgeons
American Association for Thoracic Surgery
American Academy of Pediatrics
International Society for Heart Transplantation
Central Surgical Association
American Surgical Association
Iowa Medical Society
Phi Beta Kappa
Sigma Xi
Honorable Mention, American Medical
Writers Association Medical Book Award
Thoracic Surgery Directors Association
Iowa Society of Thoracic Surgeons (President 1999)

Research Interests:
Congenital Heart Disease
Transplantation

Selected Recent Publications:
Recent Publications or Creative Works:
RI Zbar, AH Chen, DM Behrendt, EF Bell and RJH Smith: Incidence of vocal cord paralysis in infants undergoing ligation of patent ductus arteriosus. Ann Thorac Surg 61:814-816, 1996.

RE Delius, RP Embrey and DM Behrendt: Late development of functional subvalvular stenosis after repair of truncus arteriosus. Pediatr Cardiol 17:393-395, 1996.

R Manzer, RG Sutton, J Ploessl, S Niles and DM Behrendt: Cardiopulmonary bypass venous cannulation challenges in a pediatric patient with complex congenital heart disease: a case report. Perfusion 12:203-206, 1997.

JB Steinberg, RE Delius and DM Behrendt: Supravalvular aortic stenosis: a modification of extended aortoplasty. Ann Thorac Surg 65:277-279, 1998.

CA Caldarone, G Raghuveer, CB Hills, DL Atkins, TL Burns, DM Behrendt anad JH Moller: Long-term survival after mitral valve replacement in children aged <5 years, A Multi-Institutional Study, Circulation 104 (12):143-147, 2001.

Recent Books and/or Chapters:
DM Behrendt and GM Deeb: Cardiac transplantation in children, chapter in ME Cohn (ed): Cardiothoracic Surgery. New York, D C Dekker, Inc, 1992.

DM Behrendt: Congenital disease of the mitral and aortic valves, chapter in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, ed 5. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, 1992.

GJ Vlahakes, JH Lemmer Jr, DM Behrendt and WG Austen (eds): Handbook of Patient Care in Cardiac Surgery, ed 5. Boston, Little, Brown and Company, 1994.

DM Behrendt: Atrial septal defect, chapter in C Mavroudis (ed): Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, ed 2. Chicago, Year Book Medical Publishers, 1994.

RP Embrey and DM Behrendt: Cor triatriatum sinistrum, chapter in C Mavroudis (ed): Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, ed 2. Chicago, Year Book Medical Publishers, 1994.