James Fann

Clinical Focus

• Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Thoracic Surgery

Honors and Awards

• Member, Joint Council on Thoracic Surgery Education (2009)
• Member, Workforce on Patient Safety, Society of Thoracic Surgeons (2008)
• Member, Workforce on Graduate Medical Education, Society of Thoracic Surgeons (2009)
• Membership Committee, Association for Surgical Education (2008)
• Council Member, Bay Area Society of Thoracic Surgeons (2008)

Professional Education

Graduate & Fellowship Program Affiliations

• Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Surgery

Web Site Links

• Cardiac Surgery Simulation Laboratory

Industry Relationships

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Research Interests

Cardiac surgery simulation, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, coronary artery bypass surgery, cardiac valve disease, thoracic aortic disease

Publications

• Simulations of virtual PET/CT 3-D bronchoscopy imaging using a physical porcine lung-heart phantom. Yerushalmi D, Mullick R, Quon A, Fahrig R, Pelc NJ, Fann JI, Gambhir SS. Mol Imaging Biol. 2009 Jul-Aug; 11 (4): 275-82
• Simulation in coronary artery anastomosis early in cardiothoracic surgical residency training: The Boot Camp experience. Fann JI, Calhoon JH, Carpenter AJ, Merrill WH, Brown JW, Poston RS, Kalani M, Murray GF, Hicks GL, Feins RH. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2009
• Congenital coronary artery anomalies presenting in late adulthood with concurrent acquired heart disease: report of two cases. Timek TA, Kimm S, Burdon TA, Fann JI. J Card Surg. 2008 Nov-Dec; 23 (6): 773-6
• Successful lysis of an aortic prosthetic valve thrombosis with a dosing regimen for peripheral artery and bypass graft occlusions. Nguyen PK, Wasserman SM, Fann JI, Giacomini J. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2008; 135 (3): 691-3
• Heparin-induced thrombosis without thrombocytopenia. Tibayan FA, Leung LL, Burdon TA, Fann JI. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2008