Minoo Kavarana, M.D., is a pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon who joined the department in 2010. In 2023, he was appointed the inaugural division chief of the newly created Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery in the Department of Surgery. Dr. Kavarana also serves in MUSC Health as Co-Director, Pediatric and Congenital Heart Center, and is the Surgical Director of the Pediatric Heart Transplantation and Mechanical Support.
Dr. Kavarana's clinical expertise include neonatal and infant heart surgery, adult congenital heart surgery, heart and lung transplant and mechanical circulatory support. He graduated from medical school in India in 1994. Following this he received post-graduate training in general surgery at New York Medical College, where he spent a year at Columbia University, New York as a heart transplant and ventricular assist device post-doctorate fellow. He then received cardiothoracic surgery training at the Jewish Hospital, University of Louisville, Kentucky where they implanted the first implantable total artificial heart. During this time, he developed a deep clinical and research interest in pediatric cardiac disease, pediatric cardiac assist and thoracic organ transplantation. Following this he completed a congenital heart surgery fellowship at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor with Dr. Edward L. Bove.
In 2010, Dr. Kavarana joined MUSC in the division of cardiothoracic surgery. Dr. Kavarana's clinical interests include neonatal and infant heart surgery, adult congenital heart surgery, heart and lung transplant and mechanical circulatory support.
