David MCGIFFIN

Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Monash University
Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery & Transplantation, Alfred Hospital
Australia

Professor McGiffin graduated from the University of Queensland, trained in General Surgery at Princess Alexandra Hospital then Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Prince Charles Hospital. In 1982, Professor McGiffin undertook a Fellowship at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He joined the faculty at the University of Alabama, but returned to Australia in 1986 to The Prince Charles Hospital where he did adult and paediatric cardiac surgery and also set up the Queensland Heart Transplant Program. In 1992, Professor McGiffin returned to UAB where he undertook adult cardiac surgery, heart and lung transplantation and pulmonary endarterectomy for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Professor McGiffin’s research interests at UAB were surgical outcomes analysis and biomechanics of chronic mitral regurgitation.

Professor McGiffin became Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Alfred Hospital in 2013 and is involved in adult cardiac surgery, heart and lung transplantation, ventricular assist devices and pulmonary endarterectomy. Current research includes ventricular assist device driveline infection and perfusion to extend the ischemic time of donor hearts for transplantation.