Michiaki Imamura

Michiaki Imamura, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor of Surgery

Positions

Professor of Surgery: Division of Congenital Heart Surgery
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Addresses

Texas Children's West Tower (Clinic): 6621 Fannin Street
20th Floor
Houston, TX, 77030
United States
Phone: (832) 826-2030

Education

Clinical Fellowship at Cleveland Clinic: Cleveland; Congenital Heart Surgery

Clinical Fellowship at Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine: Hokkaido; Cardiovascular Surgery

Research Fellowship at Cornell University Medical College: New York; Pharmacology

Residency at Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine: Hokkaido; Cardiovascular Surgery

PhD from Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine: Hokkaido

MD from Hokkaido University School of Medicine: Hokkaido

Certifications

The Japanese Board of Cardiovascular Surgery

Honors & Awards

Best Doctors in America 2015

Professional Interests

Congenital Heart Surgery
Heart Failure Management
Congenital Heart Defect

Professional Statement

Michiaki Imamura, M.D., Ph.D. is board certified in General Surgery, Thoracic Surgery, and Cardiovascular Surgery. He specializes in the surgical management of children and adults with congenital heart disease. His clinical interests encompass the full range of congenital heart surgical issues, including the treatment of neonates and infants with congenital heart defects, patients with single ventricle physiology, pediatric heart transplant and treating adults with ongoing congenital heart issues.

Dr. Imamura is passionate about exceptional care of children with congenital heart disease. His academic interests include clinical outcomes research and physiology/anatomy of congenital heart defects. Other academic interests include complex heart failure management, ventricular assist device implantation, and cardiothoracic and congenital surgical education.

Dr. Imamura comes to Texas Children’s from Arkansas Children’s Hospital where he was as a congenital heart surgeon from 2001 to 2017. He served as chief of Pediatric and Congenital Cardiovascular Surgery from 2010 to 2017. Dr. Imamura is a talented and experienced surgeon and is a tremendous asset to the community of Houston, the surrounding region, and our extensive referral network.

Websites

Selected Publications

Shinkawa T, Lu CK, Chipman C, Tang X, Gossett JM, Imamura M. " The midterm outcomes of bioprosthetic pulmonary valve replacement in children. " Seminars in Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery. ;
Shinkawa T, Tang X, Gossett JM, Mustafa T, Hategekimana F, Watanabe F, Miyazaki T, Yamagishi M, Imamura M. " Valved polytetrafluoroethylene conduits for right ventricular outflow tract reconstruction. " Annals of Thoracic Surgery. ;
Imamura M, Abraham B, Garcia X, Knecht KR, Frazier E, Shinkawa T. " New transplant technique with hemiazygos continuation and interrupted inferior vena cava. " Annals of Thoracic Surgery. ;
Byrnes JW, Prodhan P, Williams BA, Schmitz ML, Moss MM, Dyamenahalli U, McKamie W, Morrow WR, Imamura M, Bhutta AT. " Incremental reduction in the incidence of stroke in children supported with the Berlin EXCOR ventricular assist device. " Annals of Thoracic Surgery. ;
Eghtesady P, Almond CS, Tjossem C, Epstein D, Imamura M, Turrentine M, Tweddell J, Jaquiss RD, Canter C; Berlin Heart Investigators. " Post-transplant outcomes of children bridged to transplant with the Berlin Heart EXCOR Pediatric ventricular assist device. " Circulation. ;
Almond CS, Morales DL, Blackstone EH, Turrentine MW, Imamura M, Massicotte MP, Jordan LC, Devaney EJ, et al. " Berlin Heart EXCOR pediatric ventricular assist device for bridge to heart transplantation in US children. " Circulation. ;
Imamura M, Dossey AM, Garcia X, Shinkawa T, Jaquiss RD. " Prophylactic amiodarone reduces junctional ectopic tachycardia after tetralogy of Fallot repair. " Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery. ;
Imamura M, Dossey AM, Jaquiss RD. " Reoperation and mechanical circulatory support after repair of anomalous origin of the left coronary artery from the pulmonary artery: a twenty-year experience. " Annals of Thoracic Surgery. ;
Morales DL, Almond CS, Jaquiss RD, Rosenthal DN, Naftel DC, Massicotte MP, Humpl T, Turrentine MW, Tweddell JS, Cohen GA, Kroslowitz R, Devaney EJ, Canter EC, Fynn-Thompson F, Reinhartz O, Imamura M, et al. " Bridging children of all sizes to cardiac transplantation: the initial multicenter North American experience with the Berlin Heart EXCOR ventricular assist device. " Journal of Heart & Lung Transplantation. ;
Imamura M, Prodhan P, Dossey AM, Jaquiss RD. " Reoperation after supravalvular aortic stenosis repair. " Annals of Thoracic Surgery. ;
mamura M, Dossey AM, Prodhan P, Schmitz M, Frazier E, Dyamenahalli U, Bhutta A, Morrow WR, Jaquiss RDB. " Bridge to cardiac transplant in children: Berlin Heart versus extracorporeal membrane oxygenation. " Annals of Thoracic Surgery. ;

Memberships

American Academy of Pediatrics

American College of Cardiology

Congenital Heart Surgeons Society

The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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