Emile A. Bacha, M.D.
Locations and Appointments
ColumbiaDoctors - 525 East 68th Street
CUIMC/NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital
Second Opinion
Insurances Accepted
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About Emile A. Bacha, M.D.
Dr. Emile Bacha is a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon with a subspecialization in pediatric cardiac surgery. From 2000-2004, he was the Surgical Director of the Congenital Heart Center at the University of Chicago. From 2004-2009, he was Senior Associate in Cardiac Surgery at the Children's Hospital Boston and Associate Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School, as well as Cardiac Surgery Fellowship Program Director, and Director of the Pediatric Heart Valve Center. Since January 2010, Dr. Bacha has been Director of the Congenital and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery program at NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital, Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, and Weill Cornell Medical School. In July 2011, he was appointed Chief of the Division of Cardiac, Thoracic, and Vascular Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Board Certifications
- Cardiac Surgery
- Congenital Cardiac Surgery
- Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
Languages Spoken
- English
- French
Specialties & Expertise
- Adult Congenital Heart Disease (ACHD)
- Congenital Heart Disease
- Heart Surgery
- Heart Transplant, Pediatric
- Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
- Pediatric Heart Transplant
- Valve Reconstruction/Repair
Education
- Fellowship: Children's Hospital of Boston
- Residency: Klinikum Grosshadern University Hospital
- Fellowship: Hospital Marie-Lannelongue, France
- Medical School: Faculty of Medicine, Ludwig Maximilians University (Germany)
- Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital
- Residency: Emory University Affiliated Hosptials
Leadership, Titles & Positions
- Calvin F. Barber Professor of Surgery
- Chief, Division of Cardiac, Thoracic, & Vascular Surgery
- Director, Congenital and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, NewYork-Presbyterian Congenital Heart Center
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center
- NewYork-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital