Michael E. Mitchell, MD

Professor; Section Chief, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery

Locations

Heart Heart Institute
9000 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee, WI 53226

Biography

Dr. Mitchell is a Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Children’s Wisconsin and performs all complex neonatal and pediatric cardiac surgery, as well as pediatric and adult heart and lung transplantation, and minimally invasive cardiac surgery. He was trained at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Boston Children’s Hospital, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital.

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Certifications

Congenital Cardiac Surgery
Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
Surgery

Specialties

Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Cardiothoracic Surgery
General Surgery

Languages

English

                
                    Research Experience
                
                    Bioengineered Heart Cells in Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS)
Genetic Impact of MYH6 Variants
Highly Sensitive, Non-Invasive Cardiac Transplant Rejection
Total Cell-Free Deoxyribonucleic Acid (total of cf-DNA) Predictor

                    Clinical Expertise
                
                    Adult Congenital Cardiac Surgery
Cardiovascular Surgery
Heart, Lung and Heart/Lung Transplantation
Neonatal and Infant Cardiac Surgery
Tracheal Suspension
Valve Reconstruction

                    Leadership Positions
                
                    Board Member, Children's Specialty Group (CSG)
Board Member, United Network for Organ Sharing, Region 7 Regional Heart Review
Chair Person, American College of Cardiology (ACC), Congenital Program Committee
Co-Chair Children's Specialty Group (CSG) Quality Committee
Course Chair, American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS)/Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) Congenital Heart Disease Symposium
Director, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin (CHW) Tracheal Reconstruction Team
Member & Scientific Reviewer, US Dept. of Defense, Congressionally Directed Medical Research Programs (CDMRP)
Member & Scientific Reviewer, US Dept. of Defense, Medical Research Program (PRMRP)
Member & Scientific Reviewer, US Dept. of Defense, Pre-Congenital Heart Disease (Pre-CHD)
Member, American College of Cardiology (ACC), Section Leadership Council
Member, Children's Specialty Group (CSG) Finance Committee
Member, Congenital Heart Surgeons' Society (CHS), Standards & Ethics Committee

                    MCW Program / Core Facilities
                
                    ACGME Accredited Residency Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgical Training Program
Advisory Committee, Pediatric Cardiology Research Fellow
Course Director, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery Rotation
Course Director, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Integrative Selective for Fourth Year Medical Sutdents
Member, Cardiovascular Scientific Advisory Committee
Member, DiGeorge Program Planning Committee
Member, Immunodeficiency Subcommittee
Program Director, ACGME Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery

                    Educational Expertise
                
                    1990 A.B. Princeton University, Chemistry (Cum Laude)
1995 M.D. Harvard Medical School (Magna Cum Laude)
2017 Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Leadership Development for Physicians in Academic Health Centers

                    Community Partnerships
                
                    Member, WI Statewide Umbrella Immunodeficiency Newborn Screening Subcomittee

Donor fraction cell-free DNA and rejection in adult and pediatric heart transplantation.

(Richmond ME, Zangwill SD, Kindel SJ, Deshpande SR, Schroder JN, Bichell DP, Knecht KR, Mahle WT, Wigger MA, Gaglianello NA, Pahl E, Simpson PM, Dasgupta M, North PE, Hidestrand M, Tomita-Mitchell A, Mitchell ME.) J Heart Lung Transplant. 2020 May;39(5):454-463 PMID: 31983667 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85078178592 01/28/2020
Novel KLHL26 variant associated with a familial case of Ebstein's anomaly and left ventricular noncompaction.

(Samudrala SSK, North LM, Stamm KD, Earing MG, Frommelt MA, Willes R, Tripathi S, Dsouza NR, Zimmermann MT, Mahnke DK, Liang HL, Lund M, Lin CW, Geddes GC, Mitchell ME, Tomita-Mitchell A.) Mol Genet Genomic Med. 2020 Apr;8(4):e1152 PMID: 31985165 PMCID: PMC7196453 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85078673520 01/28/2020
Commentary: No justification for transplantation in place of standard surgical palliation.

(Mitchell ME.) J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 04;159(4):1463-1465 PMID: 31982131 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85078179123 01/27/2020
Mitral Valve Surgery in Neonates, Infants, and Children: Surgical Approach, Outcomes, and Predictors.

(Isaacson E, Lucjak C, Johnson WK, Yin Z, Wang T, Rein L, Woods RK, Tweddell JS, Hraska V, Mitchell ME.) Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Jan 21 PMID: 31972302 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85079867076 01/24/2020
Innominate Vein Turn-down Procedure for Failing Fontan Circulation.

(Hraska V, Mitchell ME, Woods RK, Hoffman GM, Kindel SJ, Ginde S.) Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg Pediatr Card Surg Annu. 2020;23:34-40 PMID: 32354545 05/02/2020
Natural History of Hemodynamic Maturation Post Heart Transplantation in the Absence of Rejection

(Deshpande SR, Simpson PM, Zhang L, -Mitchell AT, Mitchell ME.) The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation. 1 April 2020;39(4):S463 PMID: 32465812 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85085588699 04/01/2020
Cell-free DNA donor fraction analysis in pediatric and adult heart transplant patients by multiplexed allele-specific quantitative PCR: Validation of a rapid and highly sensitive clinical test for stratification of rejection probability.

(North PE, Ziegler E, Mahnke DK, Stamm KD, Thomm A, Daft P, Goetsch M, Liang HL, Baker MA, Vepraskas A, Rosenau C, Dasgupta M, Simpson P, Mitchell ME, Tomita-Mitchell A.) PLoS One. 2020;15(1):e0227385 PMID: 31929557 PMCID: PMC6957190 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85077765307 01/14/2020
Innominate Vein Turn-down Procedure for Failing Fontan Circulation

(Hraska V, Mitchell ME, Woods RK, Hoffman GM, Kindel SJ, Ginde S.) Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery: Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Annual. 2020 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85080101619 01/01/2020
Safety and Efficacy of Vasopressin After Fontan Completion: A Randomized Pilot Study.

(Bigelow AM, Ghanayem NS, Thompson NE, Scott JP, Cassidy LD, Woods KJ, Woods RK, Mitchell ME, Hraŝka V, Hoffman GM.) Ann Thorac Surg. 2019 12;108(6):1865-1874 PMID: 31400337 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85074440821 08/11/2019
Proximal Arch in Left Thoracotomy Repair of Neonatal and Infant Coarctation-How Small Is Too Small?

(Callahan CP, Saudek D, Creighton S, Kuhn EM, Mitchell ME, Tweddell JS, Woods RK.) World J Pediatr Congenit Heart Surg. 2019 07;10(4):469-474 PMID: 31307310 07/17/2019
Human genotyping and an experimental model reveal NPR-C as a possible contributor to morbidity in coarctation of the aorta.

(LaDisa JF Jr, Tomita-Mitchell A, Stamm K, Bazan K, Mahnke DK, Goetsch MA, Wegter BJ, Gerringer JW, Repp K, Palygin O, Zietara AP, Krolikowski MM, Eddinger TJ, Alli AA, Mitchell ME.) Physiol Genomics. 2019 06 01;51(6):177-185 PMID: 31002586 PMCID: PMC6620646 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85066457176 04/20/2019
Waiting for Weight - 2.0 Is the New 2.5.

(Mitchell ME.) Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2019;31(3):494-495 PMID: 31071443 SCOPUS ID: 2-s2.0-85065919507 05/10/2019

Michael E. Mitchell, MD

Michael E. Mitchell, MD

Professor; Section Chief, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery

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