Redmond P. Burke

Miami Children’s Hospital 心脏外科

MD Occupation Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeon Miami Children’s Hospital Stanford University and Harvard Medical School 维基资料： Redmond Burke was born in Honolulu, Hawaii to a US Navy flight navigator, Redmond Joseph Burke, and his wife Claire Lorraine Burke, both from San Francisco, California. In 1995, he married Kim Horstman, a registered nurse from Strongsville, Ohio, and they have three daughters. Olivia, Noelle, and Grace. Noelle is a 2010 AAU National Gymnastics Champion. Burke and his three younger sisters, Alannah Radke, Claire Chinn, and Christine Jaeger, grew up in Cupertino, California. He was educated in public schools - Portal Elementary School, John F. Kennedy Junior High School, and Monta Vista High School, where he co-captained the varsity wrestling and Championship football teams, and won the Outstanding Wrestler award at the Central Coast Section Championships in 1976. To train for the California State Championships, Burke practiced with future Olympic and World Champion wrestler, Dave Schultz. Schultz took fourth place at 138 pounds, and Burke placed fifth at 165 pounds, in the California State Wrestling Championships that year.[6] Shultz's life was the subject of a 2014 American biographical drama film, Foxcatcher, co-produced and directed by Bennett Miller. Burke's influential coaches included Patrick Lovell, Ron Edwards, Dave Vierra, Rudy Lapera, and Duane "Buck" Shore. Accepted at Yale University, Brown University and Dartmouth College, he attended Stanford University, majoring in Human Biology. Notable instructors included Nobel Prize winners, Linus Pauling in biochemistry and Arthur Schawlow in physics. He walked on and made the Stanford Varsity Football team as a freshman under NFL Hall of Fame Coach Jack Christiansen. Burke co-captained the varsity rugby team, touring New Zealand and Canada, where he played wing forward. He graduated with Honors and Distinction, with election to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society. Burke attended medical school at Harvard University from 1980 to 1984.[7] Influential instructors included Hardy Hendren, Paul Buttenweiser, Judah Folkman, and Nobel Prize winner Baruj Benacerraf. Nicholas Tilney taught a course in aseptic surgical technique to Harvard Medical students, and was a remarkable mentor in surgical technique. Burke was a student observer for the first heart transplants in New England, performed by Professor John J. Collins, at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Burke was selected for General Surgical Residency Training at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, under then Surgeon in Chief, John A. Mannick MD, Mosely Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School. The Brigham surgical training philosophy was "see one, do one, teach one." The intense five year program was notable for a rigorous call schedule - every other night in the hospital - with routine 120-hour work weeks. Notable instructors included Nobel Prize Winner Joseph Murray, who performed the world’s first kidney transplant, andDavid J. Sugarbaker, who performed the first lung transplants at the Brigham and Women's Hospital. In 1989, after completing his General Surgery training at the Brigham, and in preparation for his cardiac training, Burke spent a year as a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the Spectroscopy Laboratory, under Michael Stephen Feld, PhD. Burke developed the idea that Laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy could be used to diagnose rejection in transplanted cardiac tissue, thereby avoiding the need for traumatic biopsies. Burke was selected for Cardiac Surgery Training at the Brigham and Women's Hospital, under Program Director Lawrence H. Cohn, a gifted technical surgeon. He spent six months as the Chief Resident in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery under Professor Aldo Castaneda, and attending surgeons, Richard Jonas, John Mayer, and Frank Hanley. When Dr Hanley accepted the position of Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at the University of California in San Francisco, the group offered Burke his position, and he joined the Children's Hospital Bostonattending staff in 1992, becoming an Instructor in Surgery at the Harvard Medical School.