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Vessel Plus





                                             Topic: The Clinical and Biologic

                                             Treatment of Coronary Artery

                                             Disease





                                             Dr.  Sellke  is the  Karl  Karlson  and  Gloria  Karlson  Professor  and  Chief  of
                                             Cardiothoracic Surgery at Brown Medical School and the Lifespan Hospitals,
                                             as well as the Director of the Lifespan Cardiovascular Institute. He is a native of
                                             Indiana and graduated from Wabash College and Indiana University School of
                                             Medicine. Dr. Sellke is a noted clinical cardiothoracic surgeon, researcher, and
                                             author. Before joining Brown, he served as Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at
                                             Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and the Johnson and Johnson Professor
                                             of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. His research focuses on the regulation of
                                             microcirculation in health and disease, ischemic injury and inflammation during
                                             cardiac surgery, collateral vascular formation, and the use of growth factors
                                             and cell therapy to increase blood flow to ischemic tissue. His clinical research
                  Prof. Frank W.             interests include  optimizing outcomes after cardiac  surgery, the  reduction of
                              Sellke         bleeding and transfusion, and neurocognitive dysfunction and atrial fibrillation

                   Lifespan Cardiovascular   after surgery. Dr. Sellke has been continuously funded by the National Institutes
                                             of Health for 30 years. He served as Associate Editor for The Journal of Thoracic
                    Institute, Rhode Island   and Cardiovascular Surgery for 14 years, and is currently an Associate Editor
                  Hospital, Providence, RI,   of  Circulation Heart Failure, Vessel Plus, and Circulation. Additionally, he
                                  USA.
                                             is on the Editorial Boards of Circulation, Surgery, The Canadian Journal of
                                             Cardiology, and Journal of Cardiac Surgery. He is the Editor of the 7th, 8th,
                                             9th, and 10th editions of Sabiston and Spencers’ Surgery of the Chest, a textbook
                                             on Acute Aortic Dissection and Acute Aortic Syndromes with 45 international
                                             contributors, the 1st and 2nd editions of the Atlas of Cardiac Surgical Techniques
                                             and is working on the 3rd edition. Dr. Sellke has authored more than 620 peer-
                                             reviewed journal articles, as well as numerous book chapters and abstracts. He
                                             holds an H-index of 96 and his work has been cited over 120,000 times. He has
                                             held numerous leadership positions, including Past Chairman of the Executive
                                             Committee of the Council on Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia of the
                                             American Heart Association and Past Chairman of the Advisory Council on
                                             Cardiothoracic Surgery of the American College of Surgeons. He has also served
                                             on the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons and was Chairman
                                             of its Humanitarian and Volunteerism Awards Committee, past Chairman of the
                                             American Heart Association Committee on Scientific Sessions Program and the
                                             Executive Committee, and Program Chair of the Society of University Surgeons.
                                             Currently, Dr. Sellke serves as Chairman of the Data Safety Monitoring Committee
                                             of the National Institutes of Health Cardiac Surgery Network. He has also been
                                             a full-time member of the Surgery, Anesthesiology, Trauma study section, and
                                             the Bioengineering, Technology and Surgical Science study section of the NIH.
                                             He is a Past President of the Massachusetts Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the





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