Ryan Robert Davies, MD
Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center
- Languages Spoken:
- English
Biography
Ryan Davies, M.D., is a pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon at Children’s Health℠ who specializes in neonatal heart surgery, caring for congenital heart conditions and treating heart failure.
Dr. Davies earned his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine. He then completed his surgical internship, general surgery residency and cardiothoracic surgery residency at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. He also completed additional fellowship training in pediatric cardiac surgery at Stanford University Medical Center/Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.
No two children are exactly the same, and I enjoy being able to give each patient and family personalized attention.
“Few things in medicine are as rewarding as helping children with complex and life-threatening problems go on to live full, long and healthy lives,” says Dr. Davies. “No two children are exactly the same, and I enjoy being able to give each patient and family personalized attention.”
Dr. Davies recently joined Children’s Health as Surgical Director of Pediatric Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support. He leads American Heart Association-funded research to examine how genetic conditions can affect patient outcomes after pediatric heart surgery. He also performs advanced research in mechanical circulatory assistance for heart failure, improving outcomes before and after heart transplants and neurological development after neonatal heart surgery.
In his free time, Dr. Davies enjoys spending time with his twins, being outdoors and going hiking. He also completes medical missions in Peru and the Philippines.
Education and Training
- Medical School
- Yale University School of Medicine (2001)
- Internship
- New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University (2002), General Surgery
- Residency
- New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University (2009), Cardiothoracic Surgery
New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University (2007), General Surgery - Fellowship
- New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University (2008), Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Board Certification
- American Board of Thoracic Surgery
Conditions
- Atrial septal defect (ASD)
- Coarctation of the aorta (CoA)
- Coronary artery disease
- Heart failure
- Heart murmur
- Heterotaxy syndrome
- Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS)
- Patent ductus arteriosus (PDA)
- Pulmonary atresia
- Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF)
- Total anomalous pulmonary venous return (TAPVR)
- Tricuspid atresia
- Truncus arteriosus
- Ventricular septal defect (VSD)
- d-transposition of the great arteries (d-TGA)
Treatments
- Pediatric Blalock-Taussig shunt
- Pediatric cone procedure
- Pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
- Pediatric Fontan procedure
- Pediatric Fontan revision
- Pediatric heart transplant
- Pediatric interrupted aortic arch repair or advancement
- Pediatric main pulmonary artery band (PAB)
- Pediatric truncus arteriosus repair
- Pediatric ventricular assist device (VAD)
Departments and Programs
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Research Interests
- Long-term implications of heart surgery
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Publications
- Changes in renal function after left ventricular assist device placement in pediatric patients: A Pedimacs analysis. Friedland-Little JM, Hong BJ, Gossett JG, Deshpande SR, Law S, Hollifield KA, Cantor RS, Koehl D, Kindel SJ, Turrentine MW, Davies RR J. Heart Lung Transplant. 2018 Oct 37 10 1218-1225
- Waiting for repair: Neonatal risk for brain injury during the preoperative period. Davies RR The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2018 Jul
- Alternatives to PumpKIN: The ongoing development of ventricular assist devices for infants. Davies RR The Journal of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery 2018 Jul
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Professional Activities
- Congenital Heart Surgeon’s Society
- American College of Surgeons
- American Heart Association
- Society of Thoracic Surgeons
- European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
- International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation
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Awards and Honors
- Richard E. Clark Paper for Congenital Heart Surgery, (2013) (STS Annual Meeting)
- J Maxwell Chamberlain Memorial Paper for Congenital Heart Surgery, (2013) (STS Annual Meeting)
- Blakemore Prize, (2007) - outstanding body of research during residency (CUMC Department of Surgery)
- Pediatric Heart Transplant Study/Astellas Young Investigator Award, (2007)
- Blakemore Award, (2006) - outstanding research during the previous year (CUMC Department of Surgery)
- Thoracic Surgery Directors’ Association Research Award, (2006) (STS Annual Meeting)
- Ferris Prize, (2001) - outstanding thesis
- Association of Academic Surgery Student Research Prize, (2001)
- Farr Scholar, (2000) - “superior performance as a medical student”
- Marguerite Rush Lerner Prize for Creative Writing, (2000)