CURRICULUM VITAE

Timothy William Pettitt, M.D.

Office Address:
Children's Hospital of New Orleans
200 Henry Clay Avenue
Suite 3 10
New Orleans, LA 70118

Phone: (504) 896-9751
Fax: (504) 896-3952
Email: TWPettitt@aol.com


Education:

1982 - 1986 Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, B.A. in Biology and Chemistry

1986 - 1990 UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, New Jersey, M.D.

Graduate Hospital Experience:

1990 - 1991 Intern, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri

1991 - 1992 Senior Assistant Resident, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri

1992 - 1994 Research Fellow, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri

1994 - 1995 Senior Resident Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri

1995 - 1996 Chief Resident, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri

1996 - 1998 Fellow, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri

1998 - 1999 Fellow, Section of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, Missouri


Medical Licensure and Board Certification

Missouri and Louisiana
American Board of Surgery
American Board of Thoracic Surgery


Academic Appointments

1999 - present Assistant Professor of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Louisiana State University Medical Center, New Orleans, Louisiana


Scientific Recognition

Alpha Omega Alpha, elected Junior year (President
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School Chapter)
Sigma Xi, Oberlin College, elected 1986
High Honors in Chemistry, Oberlin College
Merck Award in Chemistry, Oberlin College


Abstracts/Presentations

1. Pettitt TP, Daily BB: Development of a paracorporeal. pediatric ventricular assist device. Presented at 26h Annual Professional Meeting of the Missouri Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Lake Ozark, Missouri; June, 1993.

2. Pettitt TP, Sutera. SP, Daily BB: Hydrodynamic performance of a pediatric ventricular assist device.  Presented at the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Memphis, Tennessee; October, 1993.

3. Sutera SP, Daily BB, Pettitt TP: Scale effects in the design of a pulsatile ventricular assist device (VAD) for infants. Presented at the Annual Fall Meeting of the Biomedical Engineering Society, Memphis, Tennessee; October, 1993.

4. Pettitt TP, Lourenco LK Gerbsch RA, Daily BB: High resolution flow maps of a pediatric VAD: Can particle image velocirnetry help explain thrombosis? Annual Meeting of the American Society of Artificial Internal Organs, San Francisco, California; April, 1994.

5. Pettitt TP, Gerbsch RA, Daily BB: High-resolution quantitative flow maps of a pediatric ventricular assist device. Presented at the Surgical Forum, 8e Annual Clinical Congress of the American College of Surgeons, Chicago, Illinois; October, 1994.


Lectures

1. Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. Continuing Medical Education, Children's Hospital, New Orleans, LA. November 8, 1999

2. ECMO. Department of Surgery Grand Rounds. LSU Media] Center. December 11, 1999

Journal Articles

1. Daily BB, Pettitt TP, Sutera SP, Pierce WS: The Pierce-Donachy pediatric VAD: progress in development. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 61: 437-443, 1995.

2. Pettitt TW, Caspi J, Sandhu S, Ward K, Hixon LH. Repair of coarctation in a right-sided circumflex retroesophageal aortic arch. (work in progress)



Book Chapters

1. Pettitt TP, Cobb JP: Critical Care. In: Baumann D, Creswell L, Doherty G, Goss J, Lairmore T (eds.) The Washington Manual of Surgery, I" Edition. Little, Brown & Company; 1996.