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Eugene Victor Vivitsky, M.D.


EDUCATION
Practice Experience
June 2006 – present Private practice
Havasu Cardiac Surgery

Dec. 2003 – March 2006 Private practice
Eliza Coffee Memorial Hospital,
Florence, AL

Postgraduate Training
Aug. 2002 – Sept. 2003 Clinical Associate.
Cleveland Clinic Foundation,
Cleveland, OH

July 2000 – June 2002 Cardiothoracic Surgery Resident,
University of Tennessee,
Memphis, TN

July 1994 – June 2000 Surgical Resident, MCP/Hahnemann University,
Philadelphia, PA

1993 - 1994 Surgical Intern, Medical College of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia, PA

1992 - 1993 Medicine Intern, Frankford Hospital,
Philadelphia, PA
 

1986 - 1988 Resident in Surgery, National Research Surgical Center, Moscow, Russia

Research Fellowship
1996 - 1998 Cardiac surgery research fellow,
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia,
Philadelphia, PA

1988 - 1989 Research Fellow, Department of Cardiac Surgery
National Research Surgery Center,
Moscow, Russia

Education
1980 - 1986 First Moscow Sechenov Medical School Moscow, Russia
(Summa Cum Laude)

CLINICAL INTERESTS
  • Reconstructive valvular surgery
  • Off-Pump Coronary Bypass Surgery
  • Bilateral skeletonized ITA bypass
  • Minimally invasive valvular surgery
  • Maze procedure
  • Re-do cardiac surgery
  • Endovascular aneurysm repair
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    CERTIFICATION & LICENSURE
    American Board of Surgery
    American Board of Thoracic Surgery
    Pennsylvania MD-060176 L
    Ohio - 35-082483
    Alabama – 25615
    Arizona - 35142
     
    PUPBLICATIONS
    Vitvitsky, E., Griffin, J., Collins, M., Spray, T., & Gaynor, W.
    Increased pulmonary blood flow produces endothelial cell dysfunction
    in neonatal swine.
    Ann Thorac Surg. 1998 Oct; 66(4): 1372-7.

    Nash PJ, Vitvitsky E, Li J, Cosgrove DM 3rd, Pettersson G, Grimm RA.
    Feasibility of valve repair for regurgitant bicuspid aortic valves –
    An echocardiographic study.
    Ann Thorac Surg. 2005 May; 79(5): 1473-9

    Jones PL, Chapados R, Baldwin HS, Raff GW, Vitvitsky EV, Spray TL,
    Gaynor JW.
    Altered hemodynamics controls matrix metalloproteinase activity and tenascin-C expression in neonatal pig lung.
    Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol. 2002 Jan; 282(1): L26-35

    Nissman SA, Mann BD, Vitvitsky EV, Fyfe BS.
    Spontaneous nontraumatic hemoperitoneum due to a bleeding arteriovenous malformation on the serosal surface of the transverse colon: a case report. Am Surg 2002 Oct; 68(10):911-2

    Konstantinov, B., Cherepenin, L., Ivanov, A., Vitvitsky, E., Krivitski, N.,
    Kozhevnikov, V., Buravikhina. T., Khandiukov, S.
    [The First Experience with clinical use of monocuspid
    xenopericardial patches], [Rus]
    Grud Serdechnososudistaia Khir(Thoracic Surgery), 1990; (5): 3-7

    Konstantinov, B., Cherepenin, L., Ivanov, A., Vitvitsky, E., Semichaev, V.
    [Surgical aspects of radical correction of tetralogy of Fallot],.[Rus]
    Khirurgiia. (6): 82-9, 1991 Jun.
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