Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery
Rush University Medical Center
Chicago, IL 60612
(312) 563-2762

Faculty Biographies

Robert S. D. Higgins, MD
Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery,
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

Edgar G. Chedrawy, MD
Attending Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Rush University Medical Center and Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Illinois at Chicago

L. Penfield Faber, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery,
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

Marshall D. Goldin, MD
Associate Director, Section of Adult Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery

Michel N. Ilbawi, MD
Director, Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Department of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery,
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

Chad E. Jacobs, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery,
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

Anthony W. Kim, MD
Assistant Professor in the Department of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery,
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

Michael J. Liptay, MD
Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery and Associate Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery,
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

Robert J. March, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery,
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

Walter J. McCarthy, MD, MS
Chief, Section of Vascular Surgery and Associate Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery,
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

Anthony Perez-Tamayo, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery,
Rush University Medical Center
Chairman, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery,
John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County

Anastasios L. Polimenakos, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery,
Rush Center for Congenital and Structural Heart Disease,
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

Douglas R. Smego, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery,
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

Jonathan Somers, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery,
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago

William H. Warren, MD
Department of Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery,
Rush University Medical Center, Chicago