Jerome Sepic, M.D. - Curriculum Vitae

Education:

• Harvard Plastic Surgery Residency Program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
  Plastic Surgery Resident, Clinical Fellow in Surgery, July 2005 – July 2008
• Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
  General Surgery Resident, Clinical Fellow in Surgery, June 2002 – June 2005
• Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
  General Surgery Resident, Clinical Fellow in Surgery, June 1998 – June 2000
• Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA
  M.D., August 1994 – May 1998
• University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
  B.A., Biology, August 1990 – May 1994

Honors and Awards:

• Mannick Research Award, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Department of Surgery, 2002
• Society of American Gastrointestinal Endoscopic Surgeons, Resident Competitor, 2002
• Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society, Medical College of Virginia, 1997
• Award for the Highest Grade in Surgery, Medical College of Virginia, 1997
• Award for the Highest Grade in Gastrointestinal, Medical College of Virginia, 1996
• Award for the Highest Grade in Endocrinology, Medical College of Virginia, 1996
• Association of Pathology Chairs Honor Society, Medical College of Virginia, 1996
• Book Award for Research, Medical College of Virginia, 1995 – 1996
• Curriculum I Liberal Arts Honors Program, University of Virginia, 1994

Research:

Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory, Division of Cardiac Surgery
Principle Investigator: Lawrence H. Cohn, M.D.
Research Fellow in Surgery, June 2000 – June 2002

Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, VA
Department of Surgery
Principle Investigator: Ralph J. Damiano, Jr., M.D.
A.D. Williams Research Fellow, 1995

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
Department of Pathology
Principle Investigator: David H. Bruns, M.D.
Laboratory Technician, 1993 – 1994

Research Fellowships and Grants:

• Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) New Concept Award, Focused Ultrasound with Albumin-Coated Microbubbles to Enhance Gene Transfer in a Pig Heart Model. September, 2001. Funding Amount: $35,000. Principle Investigator – conceived project and wrote grant proposal.
• Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) Pilot Study Award, Intraluminal Coronary Shunting During Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass. September 2000. Funding Amount: $20,000. Principle Investigator – conceived project and wrote grant proposal.
• Medtronic Cardiac Surgery Research Fellowship, 2000-2002
• A.D. Williams Research Fellowship, 1995

Publications:

Jennifer S. Lawton, Jerome Sepic, Cynthia T. Allen, Peng-Wie Hsia, Ralph J. Damiano, Jr. Myocardial Protection with Potassium-Channel Openers is as Effective a St. Thomas' Solution in the Rabbit Heart. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 1996;62(1):31-9.

Lishan Aklog, Jerome Sepic, Farzan Filsoufi, John G. Byrne, David H. Adams. Open Inferior Vena Caval Anastomosis During Bicaval Heart Transplantation. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2002;73:671-2.

Jerome Sepic, Sary F. Aranki, Lawrence H. Cohn. Minimally Invasive Port-Access Repair of a Left Ventricular Pseudoaneurysm. Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery 2002;124(6):1242-3.

Jerome Sepic, Jon O. Wee, Edward G. Soltesz, Michael K. Hsin, Lawrence H. Cohn, Rita G. Laurence, Lishan Aklog. Cardiac Positioning Using an Apical Suction Device Maintains Beating Heart Hemodynamics. Heart Surgery Forum 2002;5(3):279-84.

Jerome Sepic, Lawrence H. Cohn. Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Surgery. Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, 2nd Edition, Humana Press 2003.

Jerome Sepic, Jon O. Wee, Edward G. Soltesz, Rita G. Laurence, Lawrence H. Cohn, Lishan Aklog. Intraluminal Coronary Shunting Preserves Myocardial Perfusion and Function. Heart Surgery Forum 2003;6(6):E120-5.

Jon O. Wee, Jerome Sepic, Tomislav Mihaljevic, Lawrence H. Cohn. Metastatic Carcinoid Tumor of the Heart. Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2003;76(5):1721-2.

Andrew Gogbashian, Jerome Sepic, Edward G. Soltesz, Luigi Nascimben, Lawrence H. Cohn. Operative and Long-term Survival of Elderly is Significantly Improved by Mitral Valve Repair. Am Heart J. 2006;151(6):1325-33.

Brian M. Parrett, Jerome Sepic, Julian J. Pribaz. The Contralateral Vertical Rectus Abdominis Musculocutaneous Flap for Treatment of Lower Extremity Lymphedema. Annals of Plastic Surgery. Accepted for publication.

Jennifer S. Lawton, Jerome Sepic, Cynthia T. Allen, Peng-Wie Hsia, Ralph J. Damiano, Jr. Myocardial Protection with Potassium-Channel Openers. Annual Meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Orlando, FL, January 1996.

Jerome Sepic, Jon O. Wee, Michael K. Hsin, Lawrence H. Cohn, Rita G. Laurence, Lishan Aklog. Cardiac Positioning Using an Apical Suction Device Maintains Beating Heart Hemodynamics. Cardiothoracic Techniques and Technologies VII, New Orleans, LA, January 2001.

Michael Hsin, Reitu Agrawal, Scott Visovatti, Rita Laurence, Jon Wee, Jerome Sepic, Mark Eskander, Lawrence Cohn, Elof Eriksson, Lishan Aklog. Epicardial Plasmid Gene Transfer by Microseeding. Cardiothoracic Techniques and Technologies VII, New Orleans, LA, January 2001.

Jerome Sepic, Lawrence H. Cohn, Lishan Aklog. Cardiac Positioning Using an Apical Suction Device Maintains Beating Heart Hemodynamics. 4th International Congress on Coronary Artery Disease, Prague, Czech Republic, October 2001.

Jerome Sepic, Jon O. Wee, Edward G. Soltesz, Rita G. Laurence, Lawrence H. Cohn, Lishan Aklog. Intraluminal Coronary Shunting Preserves Myocardial Perfusion and Function. Cardiothoracic Techniques and Technologies VIII, Miami, FL, January 2002.

Lishan Aklog, Jerome Sepic, Edward G. Soltesz, Farzan Filsoufi, John G. Byrne, David H. Adams. Early Experience with Off-Pump Sutureless Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Using Nitinol-based Anastomotic Devices. Cardiothoracic Techniques and Technologies VIII, Miami, FL, January 2002.

Jerome Sepic, Jon O. Wee, Edward G. Soltesz, Rita G. Laurence, Lawrence H. Cohn, Lishan Aklog. Intraluminal Coronary Shunting Preserves Myocardial Perfusion and Function. Mannick Research Conference, Boston, MA, March 2002.

Lishan Aklog, Edward G. Soltesz, Farzan Filsoufi, Jerome Sepic, Lawrence H. Cohn, Luigino Nascimben, David H. Adams. The Impact of Residual Mitral Regurgitation on Survival After CABG and Annuloplasty for Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation. American Association of Thoracic Surgeons Meeting , Washington, D.C., May 2002.

Board Certification:

American Board of Surgery - 2005