Frank G. Scholl MD- Joe DiMaggio Childrens Hospital Heart Institute
Dr. Scholl came to Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital in 2006 from Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he was Assistant Professor in the Department of Cardiac Surgery and Surgical Director of Heart Transplantation and Director of the Cardiac Assist Device Program.
Prior to that, he was Interim Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Nashville Veterans Administration Medical Center.
Under Dr. Scholl’s direction, the Heart Institute at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital has seen significant growth in volume and complexity of cases. According to The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the multidisciplinary team is caring for more acute conditions and has reduced mortality rates to among the lowest in the nation.
Dr. Scholl’s research interests include the repair of congenital heart defects and tissue regeneration using autologous tissue. He was invited to present research on Decellularized Porcine Extracellular Matrix Scaffold, Human Applications in Congenital Heart Surgery at the International Symposium on Congenital Cardiac Surgery in Japan and the Fifth World Congress of Paediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery in Australia.
At Vanderbilt, his research concerned the development of a cardiac tissue bank for proteomic analysis of cardiac function, development and pathophysiology. He also shares a patent for an implantable pediatric ventricular assist device and is a reviewer for “The European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery”, “The Annals of Thoracic Surgery”, “World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery”, and “Interactive CardioVascular and Thoracic Surgery.”