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News Round Up for April

The Department of Surgery Announces New Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery Division; Minoo Kavarana, M.D. named inaugural chief

Arman Kilic, M.D. led the surgical team who transplanted the first heart in South Carolina obtained by donation after circulatory death (DCD).

Partial heart transplant delivers durable, growing valves for the repair of critical congenital heart defects

Dr. Kathryn Engelhardt joins the MUSC Department of Surgery

Nicolas Pope MD Named Dwight Harken Scholar

T. Konrad Rajab M.D. Receives Award from the Saving tiny Hearts Society

Sanford Zeigler MD received the Thoracic Surgery Foundation Nicholas Kouchoukos Award.

Minoo Kavarana, M.D. places valve in novel fashion to meet tiny patient's needs.