Michael E. Mitchell, MD

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

Division
Cardiothoracic Surgery

Research center/program
Cardiothoracic Surgery

Research interests
Congenital heart disease; Surgery

Study interests
Fetal and neonatal cardiac surgery; genetics of congenital heart disease; pediatric cardiac surgery; prenatal and neonatal diagnosis and outcomes; tracheal surgery.

Education
Bachelor degree, Princeton University, N.J., 1990; medical degree, Harvard Medical School, Boston, 1995; residency and internship, Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, 2001; resident, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, 2002; chief resident, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Boston, 2002; fellow, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, 2003.

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

Honors
Sigma XI Honor Society 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.

Representative publications

• Dominguez TE, Mitchell ME, 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.
• Kavarna MN, Pagni S, Sobczyk WC, Recto M, Yeh T, Mitchell ME, Austin EH. Seven Year Clinical Experience with the Extracardiac Pedicled Pericardial Fontan Operation. Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2005 Jul; 80(1):37-43.
• 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 ME, 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.
• Ghanayem NS, Mitchell ME, Tweddell JS, Hoffman GM. Monitoring the Brain Before, During and After Cardiac Surgery to Improve Long-term Neurodevelopmental Outcomes. Cardiology in the Young. 2006 Sep; 16 Suppl 3:103-9.
• Mitchell ME, Litwin SB, Tweddell JS. Complex Atrioventricular Canal. Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Annual. 2007: 32-41.
• Litwin SB, Tweddell JS, Mitchell ME, Mussatto KA. The Double Patch Repair for Complete Atrioventricularis Communis. Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Annual. 2007: 21-7.
• Giridharan GA, Koenic 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. Seminars in Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery. 2007 Fall;19(3):228-37.
• Tweddell JS, Ghanayem NS, Mussato KA, Mitchell ME, Lamers LJ, Musa NL, Berger S, Litwin SB, Hoffman GM. Mixed Venous 02 Saturation Monitoring Following Stage 1 Palliation for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 2007 Oct; 84(4):1301-10; discussion 1310-1.
• Draus JM, Hauck MA, Austin EH III, Goetsch M, Tomita-Mitchell A, Mitchell ME. Investigation of Somatic NKX2-5 Mutations in Congenital Heart Disease. Journal of Medical Genetics. 2009; 46;115-122.

Grants

• Development of Population-based Screening for Digeorge Syndrome Type1; National Institutes of Health; co-investigator, principal investigator Aoy Tomita-Mithchell, PhD; 7/31/08-6/31/10.
• Prospective Blinded Validation of a Non-invasive Diagnostic Test for Fetal Chromosomal Abnormalities; A Healthier Wisconsin/Clinical ad Translational Science Institute; principal investigator; 1/1/09-12/31/10

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