Brian Duncan, M.D.

Brian Duncan, MD, is a staff physician in the departments of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Cardiology, and the Transplantation Center at Cleveland Clinic.

He has more than 12 years of clinical experience as a staff pediatric cardiac surgeon at Children’s Hospital, Boston, Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, Seattle and his present position at Cleveland Clinic.

He received his medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine, graduating with highest distinction.  Dr. Duncan completed his general surgery and cardiovascular surgery training at the Massachusetts General Hospital and was a research fellow in pediatric surgery at the University of California, San Francisco.  Dr. Duncan subsequently completed his chief residency in pediatric cardiac surgery at Children’s Hospital, Boston.

Dr. Duncan was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Alpha Omega Alpha and is a member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Dr. Duncan has joint staff appointments in the Cleveland Clinic’s Transplant Center, Molecular Cardiology and Biomedical Engineering.  Dr. Duncan also maintains busy laboratory efforts investigating angiogenesis in children with congenital heart disease and pediatric mechanical circulatory support.

Dr. Duncan was the recipient of an American Heart Association Established Investigator Award that funded the angiogenesis project.  He is the principal investigator for a $4.2 million contract awarded to Cleveland Clinic by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute of the National Institutes of Health, for the development of “The PediPump,” a pediatric ventricular assist device. The device is designed to provide circulatory support for the entire age and size ranges of children with heart failure, from infants to adolescents.

An international expert in clinical applications and research using blood pumps to treat children with heart failure, Dr. Duncan was editor of “Mechanical Circulatory Support for Cardiac and Respiratory Failure in Pediatric Patients,” the definitive textbook for pediatric mechanical circulatory support. He has authored more than 90 peer-reviewed journal articles and 20 chapters, many on pediatric mechanical circulatory support. He also has given more than 50 national and international lectures on the subject.

Pediatric cardiothoracic transplantation, neonatal cardiac surgery, pediatric mechanical circulatory support, research: angiogenesis in cyanotic congenital heart disease, pediatric heart surgery.

Working with Lerner Research Institute's Biomedical Engineering to develop the PediPump, a mechanical circulatory support device for children.

Principal Investigator, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, Pediatric Circulatory Support Program, NHLBI Contract No. HHSN268200448188C

• American Association for Thoracic Surgery
• Society of Thoracic Surgeons
• American Society for Artificial Internal Organs
• International Society of Heart Lung Transplantation
• International Society of Rotary Blood Pumps

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