Abbas Ardehali investigates how to keep human hearts and lungs alive outside the body before they are transplanted.
Why you should listen
Abbas Ardehali is a professor of cardiothoracic surgery and also directs the Heart, Lung and Heart-Lung Transplant Programs at UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine. He holds the William E. Connor Chair in Cardiothoracic Transplantation. He was the first surgeon in the United States to perform a breathing lung transplant and is continuing to investigate how to keep human hearts and lungs alive outside the body before they are transplanted. He is a pioneer in the field of heart and lung transplantation, constantly pushing the boundaries of what is possible in organ transplantation.
