Positions

Associate Professor of Surgery

Division of Congenital Heart Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine

Surgical Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program

Texas Children’s Heart Center

Addresses

Texas Children’s Hospital (Hospital)

Legacy Tower , Floor 21
6651 Main Street
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 822-2243

Education

Fellowship at The Hospital for Sick Children

Toronto

Congenital Heart Surgery

Residency at University of Toronto

Toronto

Cardiac Surgery

Professional Interests

• Neonatal, infant and pediatric congenital heart surgery
• Adult congenital heart disease
• Heart transplantation and mechanical support
• Extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)

Professional Statement

Dr. Edward Hickey, a recognized leader in cardiovascular surgery, most recently served as associate professor of cardiac surgery at the University of Toronto and cardiac surgeon and chief of the ACHD program at The Hospital for Sick Children. In addition to his leadership role, he will also perform congenital heart surgeries and serve as associate professor of surgery at Baylor College of Medicine.

Hickey received a bachelor of medicine degree from the University of Southampton in the U.K., where he also completed his general surgery residency. He went on to complete higher surgical training in cardiothoracic surgery and simultaneously earned his doctorate of medicine research thesis from Oregon Health & Science University and the University of Southampton, respectively. Hickey then received the John Kirklin Fellowship from the Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Society, University of Toronto and spent two years at The Hospital for Sick Children. He also completed residency training in cardiovascular surgery at the University of Toronto followed by a clinical fellowship in congenital heart surgery.

Websites

Selected Publications

• Hickey EJ, Halvorsen F, Laussen PC, Hirst G, Schwartz S, Van Arsdell GS. "Chasing the 6-sigma: drawing lessons from the cockpit culture." Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.;
• Hickey EJ, Nosikova Y, Pham-Hung E, Gritti M, Schwartz S, Caldarone CA, Redington A, Van Arsdell GS "National Aeronautics and Space Administration “threat and error” model applied to pediatric cardiac surgery: error cycles precede ∼85% of patient deaths." Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.;
• Meza, Hickey, Blackstone, Jaquiss, Anderson, Williams, Cai, Van Arsdell, Karamlou, McCrindle "The optimal timing of stage-2 palliation for hypoplastic left heart syndrome: an analysis of the Pediatric Heart Network Single Ventricle Reconstruction Trial Public Dataset." Circulation.;
• Hickey EJ, Pham-Hung E, Nosikova Y, Halvorsen F, Gritti M, Schwartz S, Caldarone CA, Van Arsdell GS "National Aeronautics and Space Administration model of “threat and error” in pediatric cardiac surgery: patterns of error chains." Annals of Thoracic Surgery.;

Memberships

Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Society