George Sarris

Dr Sarris is a graduate of Athens College (Athens, Greece), Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, and a diplomate of the Harvard – MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. He trained in Internal Medicine at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and completed training in General Surgery, Cardiothoracic Surgery and Cardiopulmonary Transplantation at Stanford University, mentored by Professors Norman Shumway and D. Craig Miller. A Diplomate the American Boards of Surgery and Thoracic Surgery, he completed a Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Fellowship at Emory University.  He served on the faculty at Emory and the Cleveland Clinic, where he worked with Roger Mee being in charge of Pediatric Heart and Lung Transplantation. Returning to his native Athens, he established and directed major Pediatric Cardiac Surgical Units at the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Center, at Iaso Children’s and at Mitera Children’s Hospitals. He has served in leadership positions in international scientific organizations, including President of the European Congenital Heart Surgeons Association (ECHSA), founding member of the World Society for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery, and serves on the Global Council of Education for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery.

He is Chair of the ECHSA Database Committee and  Director of the ECHSA Congenital Cardiac Database, in which he has introduced novel Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning based, powerful analytical tools, developed in collaboration with MIT, permitting accurate individual patient risk prediction, benchmarking, and automated centre quality assessment. He has lectured in major international congresses, and has published extensively in important textbooks and peer-reviewed journals.