Michiaki Imamura, M.D., Ph.D.
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Michiaki Imamura, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Surgery
Positions
- Professor of Surgery
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Division of Congenital Heart Surgery
Baylor College of Medicine
Addresses
- Texas Children's West Tower (Clinic)
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6621 Fannin Street
20th Floor
Houston, TX 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 826-2030
Congenital Heart Surgery
Education
- Clinical Fellowship at Cleveland Clinic
- Cleveland
- Congenital Heart Surgery
- Clinical Fellowship at Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine
- Hokkaido
- Cardiovascular Surgery
- Research Fellowship at Cornell University Medical College
- New York
- Pharmacology
- Residency at Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine
- Hokkaido
- Cardiovascular Surgery
- PhD from Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine
- Hokkaido
- MD from Hokkaido University School of Medicine
- Hokkaido
Certifications
- The Japanese Board of Cardiovascular Surgery
Honors & Awards
- Best Doctors in America 2015
Professional Interests
- Congenital Heart Surgery
- Heart Failure Management
- Congenital Heart Defect
Professional Statement
Michiaki Imamura, M.D., Ph.D. is board certified in General Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, and Cardiovascular Surgery. He specializes in the surgical management of children and adults with congenital heart disease. His clinical interests encompass the full range of congenital heart surgical issues, including the treatment of neonates and infants with congenital heart defects, patients with single ventricle physiology, pediatric heart transplant and treating adults with ongoing congenital heart issues.Dr. Imamura is passionate about exceptional care of children with congenital heart disease. His academic interests include clinical outcomes research and physiology/anatomy of congenital heart defects. Other academic interests include complex heart failure management, ventricular assist device implantation, and cardiothoracic and congenital surgical education.
Dr. Imamura comes to Texas Children’s from Arkansas Children’s Hospital where he was as a congenital heart surgeon from 2001 to 2017. He served as chief of Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Surgery from 2010 to 2017. Dr. Imamura is a talented and experienced surgeon and is a tremendous asset to the community of Houston, the surrounding region, and our extensive referral network.
Websites
Selected Publications
- Shinkawa T, Lu CK, Chipman C, Tang X, Gossett JM, Imamura M "The midterm outcomes of bioprosthetic pulmonary valve replacement in children." Seminars in Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery.;
- Shinkawa T, Tang X, Gossett JM, Mustafa T, Hategekimana F, Watanabe F, Miyazaki T, Yamagishi M, Imamura M "Valved polytetrafluoroethylene conduits for right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction." Annals of Thoracic Surgery.;
- Imamura M, Abraham B, Garcia X, Knecht KR, Frazier E, Shinkawa T "New transplant technique with hemiazygos continuation and interrupted inferior vena cava." Annals of Thoracic Surgery.;
- Byrnes JW, Prodhan P, Williams BA, Schmitz ML, Moss MM, Dyamenahalli U, McKamie W, Morrow WR, Imamura M, Bhutta AT "Incremental reduction in the incidence of stroke in children supported with the Berlin EXCOR ventricular assist device." Annals of Thoracic Surgery.;
- Eghtesady P, Almond CS, Tjossem C, Epstein D, Imamura M, Turrentine M, Tweddell J, Jaquiss RD, Canter C; Berlin Heart Investigators "Post-transplant outcomes of children bridged to transplant with the Berlin Heart EXCOR Pediatric ventricular assist device." Circulation.;
- Almond CS, Morales DL, Blackstone EH, Turrentine MW, Imamura M, Massicotte MP, Jordan LC, Devaney EJ, et al "Berlin Heart EXCOR pediatric ventricular assist device for bridge to heart transplantation in US children." Circulation.;
- Imamura M, Dossey AM, Garcia X, Shinkawa T, Jaquiss RD "Prophylactic amiodarone reduces junctional ectopic tachycardia after tetralogy of Fallot repair." Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery.;
- Imamura M, Dossey AM, Jaquiss RD "Reoperation and mechanical circulatory support after repair of anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery: a twenty-year experience." Annals of Thoracic Surgery.;
- Morales DL, Almond CS, Jaquiss RD, Rosenthal DN, Naftel DC, Massicotte MP, Humpl T, Turrentine MW, Tweddell JS, Cohen GA, Kroslowitz R, Devaney EJ, Canter EC, Fynn-Thompson F, Reinhartz O, Imamura M, et al "Bridging children of all sizes to cardiac transplantation: the initial multicenter North American experience with the Berlin Heart EXCOR ventricular assist device." Journal of Heart & Lung Transplantation.;
- Imamura M, Prodhan P, Dossey AM, Jaquiss RD "Reoperation after supravalvular aortic stenosis repair." Annals of Thoracic Surgery.;
- mamura M, Dossey AM, Prodhan P, Schmitz M, Frazier E, Dyamenahalli U, Bhutta A, Morrow WR, Jaquiss RDB "Bridge to cardiac transplant in children: Berlin Heart versus extracorporeal membrane oxygenation." Annals of Thoracic Surgery.;
Memberships
- American Academy of Pediatrics
- American College of Cardiology
- Congenital Heart Surgeons Society
- The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
- The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
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