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Valluvan Jeevanandam, MD

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Cynthia Chow Professor of Surgery; Chief of Cardiac Surgery; Director, Heart and Vascular Center · University of Chicago Medicine

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Region🇺🇸 Chicago, IL · Midwest · United StatesSpecialtyThoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery)FocusMechanical Circulatory Support Devices+4
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Valluvan Jeevanandam is Cynthia Chow Professor of Surgery; Chief of Cardiac Surgery; Director, Heart and Vascular Center at University of Chicago Medicine. OpenAlex indexes 592 publications with 14,726 citations (h-index 60); ClinicalTrials.gov lists 5 registered studies with this person as an investigator. By OpenAlex citation count, this profile ranks in the top 10% of Thoracic Surgery (Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery) profiles in the findmyKOL directory.

Data verified 18 Oct 2026

Overview

Updated 18 Oct 2026

Valluvan Jeevanandam is Cynthia Chow Professor of Surgery at University of Chicago Medicine. The public record shows 592 publications with 14,726 citations (h-index 60), centered on Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices, Transplantation: Methods and Outcomes, Cardiac Valve Diseases and Treatments. It also documents an investigator role on 5 registered clinical trials, industry payments reported by 17 companies.

  • Most recent indexed publication: 2024 · Open forum infectious diseases
  • Top research focus: Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices
  • 5 registered trials on ClinicalTrials.gov
  • Open Payments reporting from 17 companies

Generated from the cited public record · current as of 18 Oct 2026. Every fact links its source below.

Indications focus

from trials led + research topics
Heart Failure2 trialsShock1 trialShock, Cardiogenic1 trialAtrial Fibrillation1 trialCardiovascular Diseases1 trialVascular Diseases1 trialHeart Diseases1 trial

Research focus

OpenAlex concept fingerprint
Mechanical Circulatory Support DevicesTransplantation: Methods and OutcomesCardiac Valve Diseases and TreatmentsCardiac and Coronary Surgery TechniquesCardiac Structural Anomalies and Repair

Drugs & molecules

across trials, industry payments and publications
Ultomirisgeneric · RavulizumabClinical trials—Industry payments39Publications—Thymoglobulingeneric · Lymphocyte immune globulin, anti-thymocyte globulinClinical trials—Industry payments1Publications—Vyndaqelgeneric · TafamidisClinical trials—Industry payments1Publications—

Works with

trial sponsors and companies reporting payments
Abbott LaboratoriesClinical trials—Industry payments66Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Clinical trials—Industry payments42Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc.Clinical trials—Industry payments17Medtronic, Inc.Clinical trials—Industry payments12Ge HealthcareClinical trials—Industry payments7Edwards Lifesciences CorporationClinical trials—Industry payments5University of ChicagoClinical trials4Industry payments—Atricure, Inc.Clinical trials—Industry payments2AbiomedClinical trials—Industry payments1AstraZeneca ABClinical trials—Industry payments1Baxter HealthcareClinical trials—Industry payments1Baxter Healthcare CorporationClinical trials1Industry payments—Helios Cardio IncClinical trials—Industry payments1Lsi Solutions IncClinical trials—Industry payments1Medistim USA, Inc.Clinical trials—Industry payments1Nuwellis, Inc.Clinical trials—Industry payments1Pfizer Inc.Clinical trials—Industry payments1Sanofi-Aventis U.S. LLCClinical trials—Industry payments1ZOLL Circulation IncClinical trials—Industry payments1

Scholarship

indexed output and impact (OpenAlex)
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592publications

Distinct works indexed by OpenAlex, matched via ORCID; 5 in PubMed.

14,726citations

Total citations across indexed works.

60h-index

Hirsch index (OpenAlex). i10-index 181.

Clinical & industry

trials, payments and federal funding
5clinical trials

Investigator role on registered studies.

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17companies · 2021–2025

Companies reporting payments to CMS. Facts, not judgments.

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0NIH grants

Federally funded research awards.

Contact

An office address from a public listing. This research profile has no federal registry record to draw from.

Office address

5758 S. Maryland Ave., Chicago, IL 60637

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Clinical trials

Updated 18 Oct 2026

Listed as an investigator on 5 registered studies on ClinicalTrials.gov. The most recent:

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Industry payments

Updated 18 Oct 2026

17 companies reported payments to CMS in program years 2021–2025. These are public disclosures, not judgments. The latest:

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NIH funding

We didn't find any NIH-funded research awards for this person in NIH RePORTER. Why? →

Publications

Updated 18 Oct 2026

Their five most recent publications, matched to their ORCID record and linked to PubMed.

Most-cited works

by citation count (OpenAlex)
  1. 01
    A Fully Magnetically Levitated Left Ventricular Assist Device — Final Report
    Article1,314 citations2019
    doi.org ↗
  2. 02
    Intrapericardial Left Ventricular Assist Device for Advanced Heart Failure
    Article758 citations2017
    doi.org ↗
  3. 03
    Two-Year Outcomes with a Magnetically Levitated Cardiac Pump in Heart Failure
    Article722 citations2018
    doi.org ↗
  4. 04
    Use of an Intrapericardial, Continuous-Flow, Centrifugal Pump in Patients Awaiting Heart Transplantation
    Article657 citations2012
    doi.org ↗
  5. 05
    The sirtuin SIRT6 blocks IGF-Akt signaling and development of cardiac hypertrophy by targeting c-Jun
    Article476 citations2012
    doi.org ↗
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Network

Updated 18 Oct 2026

The people this person publishes with most, by number of co-authored papers. Names link to their own profile when we have one.

Nir Y. Uriel235Takeyoshi Ota194Gabriel T. Sayer149Tae Ho Song130Gene H. Kim117J. Raikhelkar111Sara Kalantari110Grace E. Kim106Daniel E. Rodgers102Ann B. Nguyen101B. Smith91N. Sarswat81Teruhiko Imamura77Colleen Juricek77David R. Onsager76Nitasha Sarswat71B. Chung71Jonathan Grinstein68Nikhil Narang68Sirtaz Adatya67Roberto Miguel Lang66GABRIEL T. SAYER53Pamela S. Combs51Luise Holzhauser44Daniel Burkhoff40Umar A. Siddiqi40Sean Pinney39C. LaBuhn39Takeo Fujino37Mark N. Belkin32Jai Raman31Savitri Fedson31Ben Chung31Daisuke Nitta30Teruhiko Imamura30Victor Mor‐Avi26Hidefumi Nishida26Eric Kruse25Imo Ebong25C. Murks23

Online presence

Updated 18 Oct 2026

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Owned accounts

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  • Other

    profiles.uchicago.edu/profiles/display/37940/network/coauthors/details

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  • Other

    uchicagomedicine.org/find-a-physician/physician/Valluvan-Jeevanandam

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Background & recognition

Updated 18 Oct 2026

Credentials, appointments and honors, newest first, each linked to the public source it came from.

Education

degrees and training on record
  • MD

    Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

    verifiedCorroborated by findmyKOL. We matched this record across two or more independent public sources (or a verified ORCID / NPI identifier bridge) before attributing it to this person.How we verify →uchicagomedicine.org ↗
  • General Surgery Residency

    Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York

    verifiedCorroborated by findmyKOL. We matched this record across two or more independent public sources (or a verified ORCID / NPI identifier bridge) before attributing it to this person.How we verify →reachmd.com ↗
  • Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship

    Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center

    verifiedCorroborated by findmyKOL. We matched this record across two or more independent public sources (or a verified ORCID / NPI identifier bridge) before attributing it to this person.How we verify →reachmd.com ↗
  • Board Certification

    Thoracic Surgery

    verifiedCorroborated by findmyKOL. We matched this record across two or more independent public sources (or a verified ORCID / NPI identifier bridge) before attributing it to this person.How we verify →uchicagomedicine.org ↗

Editorial & leadership roles

journal and society appointments
  • Editorial Board Member

    Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

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  • Panel Member on Circulatory Devices

    Food and Drug Administration

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  • Member

    American Association for Thoracic Surgery

    provisionalFound in a cited public source but not yet independently corroborated. Published as a labeled candidate and queued for verification.How we verify →uchicagomedicine.org ↗
  • Member

    Society of Thoracic Surgeons

    provisionalFound in a cited public source but not yet independently corroborated. Published as a labeled candidate and queued for verification.How we verify →uchicagomedicine.org ↗
  • Member

    American College of Surgeons

    provisionalFound in a cited public source but not yet independently corroborated. Published as a labeled candidate and queued for verification.How we verify →uchicagomedicine.org ↗
  • Member

    American Heart Association

    provisionalFound in a cited public source but not yet independently corroborated. Published as a labeled candidate and queued for verification.How we verify →uchicagomedicine.org ↗
  • Member

    International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation

    provisionalFound in a cited public source but not yet independently corroborated. Published as a labeled candidate and queued for verification.How we verify →uchicagomedicine.org ↗
  • Member

    American Society for Artificial Organs

    provisionalFound in a cited public source but not yet independently corroborated. Published as a labeled candidate and queued for verification.How we verify →uchicagomedicine.org ↗

Awards & honors

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