Professor David McGiffin MBBS, FRACS, DMedHS
Current appointments: Senior Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Transplantation, The Alfred Hospital, (now retired from clinical practice) and Professor of cardiothoracic surgery, Monash University, Melbourne Australia. Previously, Director, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Transplantation, The Alfred from 2013-2021. Prior to that appointment, I was Professor of CT Surgery at The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA for 20 years. My clinical activities were adult cardiac surgery, pulmonary endarterectomy, adult heart transplantation, mechanical circulatory support, adult and pediatric lung transplantation.
Research: Since 2013 my major research interests have been experimental and clinical investigation of donor heart preservation using Hypothermic Oxygenated Perfusion and VAD driveline infection pathology and mitigation.