Michael E. Mitchell, MD

Cardiothoracic Surgery

Title(s): Pediatic cardiothoracic surgeon, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin; assistant professor, Surgery (Cardiothoracic), Medical College of Wisconsin.

Education: Medical degree, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1995; residency, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, 2002; fellowship, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2004.

Certification: American Board of Surgery, General Surgery, 2002; American Board of Thoracic Surgery, 2004; Fellow, American College of Surgery, 2004.

Honors: Sigma XI Honor Society and Membership, Outstanding undergraduate thesis, Princeton University, 1990; Student research grant, Harvard Medical School, 1992; Howard Hughes Research Fellowship, 1993; Student research grant, Harvard Medical School, 1994; Excellence in teaching award, PGY 1, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1996; Excellence in Teaching award, PGY 3, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, 1999; 16th Annual Secondary School Admission Test/Ross Resident's and Fellow's Research Conference (top 20 papers), 2001.

Research interests: Pediatric cardiac surgery, tracheal surgery, genetic and environmental interactions.

Representative publications:

• Dominguez TE, Mitchell M, Freiss SH, Huh JW, Manno CS, Ravishankar C, Gaynor JW, Tabbutt S. The Use of Recombinant Factor VIIa for Refractory Hemorrhage During Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine. 2005 May; 6(3):348-351.
• Kavarana MN, Pagni S, Sobczyk WC, Recto M, Yeh T, Mitchell ME, Austin EH. Seven Year Clinical Experience with the Extracardiac Pedicled Pericardial Fontan Operation. Annuals of Thoracic Surgery. 2005 Jan.
• Mitchell ME, Ittenbach RF, Gaynor JW, Wernovsky G, Nicolson S, Spray TL. Parental Assessment of Intermediate Outcomes Following Fontan in the Current Era. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. 2006 Jan.; 131(1):172-180.
• Das BB, Recto M, Johnsrude C, Klein L, Orman K, Shoemaker L, Mitchell M, Austin EH. Cardiac Transplantation for Pediatric Giant Cell Myocarditis. Journal of Heart and Lung Transplant. 2006 Apr.; 25(4):474-8. Epub 2006 Feb 8.
• Giridharan GA, Koenig SC, Mitchell ME, Gartner M, Pantalos GM. A Computer Model of the Pediatric Circulatory System for Testing Pediatric Assist Devices. American Society for Artificial Internal Organs Journal. 2007; 53:74-81.
• Mitchell ME, Sander TL, Klinker DB, Tomita-Mitchell A. The Molecular Basis of Congenital Heart Disease. Semin Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery. 2007 Fall; 19(3):228-37.

Current grants: 

• A Non-invasive Fetal Diagnostic Test for Chromosomal Abnormalities, Wallace Coulter Foundation, principal investigator, Aoy Tomita-Mitchell, PhD, coinvestigator.
• The Genetic Basis of Congenital Heart Disease, Birth Defects Center, University of Louisville, NIH COBRE award, principal investigator.
• Donation of Laboratory Equipment to the University of Louisville and the Cardiovascular Innovation Institute, Beckman Coulter, Inc., principal investigator.

Contact information: Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Herma Heart Center, PO Box 1997, Milwaukee, WI 53201-1997. Phone: (414) 266-2491. E-mail: memitchell@mcw.edu.