Louis Samuels
Lankenau Medical Center, USA
Biography
Louis Samuels received his Undergraduation education at the University of Rochester in New York and attended Medical School at Hahnemann University in Philadelphia. He completed his General Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery training at Hahnemann and. joined the faculty in 1995, assuming the Directorship of the Heart Transplant and Ventricular Assist Device Program in 1997. In 2001, Samuels and his team implanted the world’s fifth total artificial heart (AbioCor). In 2003, Samuels joined the Main Line Health System at Lankenau Medical Center (Wynnewood) as the Surgical Director of Heart Failure and rose to the rank of Full Professor of Surgery at Thomas Jefferson University School of Medicine (Philadelphia) in 2009.rnSamuels has published more than 100 peer-reviewed manuscripts, has participated as Principle or Co-Investigator in numerous Ventricular Assist Device (VAD) trials, serves as the medical monitor for and Clinical Events Committee member of VAD trials, and continues to engage in a busy clinical practice. rn