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Dr. Hsia

Tain-Yen Hsia, M.D., M.Sc.
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Medical University of South Carolina
Assistant Professor of Bioengineering
Clemson University


Tel (843) 792-2333
Fax (843) 792-
E-mail: hsiaty@musc.edu
 

EDUCATION
M.Sc. awarded by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991
M.D. awarded by Stanford University, 1996
Residency, Johns Hopkins Hospital
Fellowships:
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Great Ormond Hospital for Children London UK
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Certified:
American Board of Surgery
Thoracic Surgery

Special interests: Congenital cardiac surgery

POSITIONS AND EMPLOYMENTS
1996-2002 Intern and Resident, Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
2002-2005 Resident, Cardiothoracic Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
2005-2006 Fellow, Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
2006-present Assistant Professor, Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

AWARDS
1996 Robert W. Furguson Medical Scholar, Stanford Medical School
2000 Young Investigator's Award in Congenital Heart Disease Prize, European Asso. for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
2000 C. Walton Lillehei Resident Award, American Association for Thoracic Surgery
2001&2002 Vincent Gott Cardiac Research Award, Johns Hopkins Hospital
2008 Basil O'Connor Scholar Award from March of Dime on Biosensor Research.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Hsia T-Y and Behrmann LA. Perforating Skin as a Function of Rock Permeability and Underbalance. Society of Petroleum Engineering Annual Production Operation and Engineering Proceedings, 1991; 5:503-510.
 
Behrmann LA, Pucknell JK, Bishop SR, and Hsia T-Y. Measurement of Additional Skin Resulting From The Perforation Damage Zone. Society of Petroleum Engineering Annual Production Operation and Engineering Proceedings, 1991; 5:491-502.
 
Hsia T-Y, and Shortliffe, L. The Effect of Pregnancy on Rat Urinary Tract Dynamics. J of Urology, 1995; 154:681-689.
 
Hsia T-Y, Billingham M, Kernoff R, and Sung RJ. Intracoronary Arterial Embolization and Electrothrombosis: A Novel Technique Potentially Useful for Ablation of Cardiac Arrhythmias. J Interv Card Electrophysiol, 1997; 1(1):7-14. 
 
Dagar KS, Hsia T-Y, Yates R, Taylor JFN, de Leval MR, Tsang V. Concurrent vascular ring and occult left pulmonary artery associated with ventricular septal defect: A report of an uncommon constellation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg, 1999;118:1127-1129.

Migliavacca F, Dubini G, Pennati G, Guadagni G, Pietrabissa R, Hsia T-Y, and de Leval MR. Computational fluid dynamics simulation of the systemic-to-pulmonary shunt. In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics & Biomedical Engineering, 1999: 234-236.
 
McGinley J, Hsia T-Y, Tsang V, Goldman A. The cost of open-heart surgery in the under 3kg baby. Ped Crit Care Med, 1(1): 41, 2000.
 
Migliavacca F, Dubini G, Pennati G, Pietrabissa R, Fumero R, Hsia T-Y, de Leval MR. Computational model of the fluid dynamics in systemic-to-pulmonary shunts. J Biomechanics, 2000; 33: 549-557.
 
Hsia T-Y, Migliavacca F, Pittaccio S, Radailli A, de Leval MR. Computational Fluid Dynamics of the Total Cavopulmonary Connection. In Hoff L and Hoff C, eds: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mechanics in Medicine and Biology. Flint, Michigan: Kettering University; 2000: 283-285
 
Hsia T-Y, Khambadkone, Redington AN, de Leval MR. Pressure-flow velocity relations of systemic venous return in patients with univentricular circulation. Heart 2000; 83: 583.
 
Hsia, T-Y, Khambadkone S, Redington AN, Migliavacca F, Deanfield JE, de Leval MR. Effects of respiration and gravity on infra-diaphragmatic venous flow in normal and Fontan patients. Circulation 2000; 102: III-148 - III-153.
 
Migliavacca F, Pennati G, Dubini G, Fumero R, Pietrabissa R, Urcelay G, Bove E, Hsia T-Y, de Leval MR. Modeling of the Norwood circulation: effects of shunt size, vascular resistances and heart rate. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol, 2001; 280(5):H2076-H2086
 
Hsia T-Y, Khambadkone,S, Hoschtitzky A, de Leval MR. Effects of fenestration on the sub-diaphragmatic venous hemodynamics in the total-cavopulmonary connection. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2001; 19:785-792.
 
Hsia T-Y, Khambadkone S, Deanfield JE, Taylor JFN, Migliavacca F, de Leval MR. Subdiaphragmatic venous hemodynamics in the Fontan circulation. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2001;121:436-447
 
Hsia T-Y, Kirkham F, Waldman A, Tsang V. The implications of extensive cerebral vascular dysplasia in surgical repair of coarctation of the aorta and ventricular septal defect. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2001; 121:998-1001.
 
Migliavacca F, Pennati G, Pietrabissa R, Bove EL, Hsia T-Y, de Leval MR, Dubini G. Hemodynamics and oxygens in the Norwood circulation: a lumped parameter model. Proceedings of the 2001 Summer Bioengineering Conference. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, New York (USA), 913-914, 2001.
 
Migliavacca F, Dubini G, Pennati G, Guadagni G, Hsia T-Y, de Leval MR. Haemodynamics in the Norwood circulation. In: Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, Amsterdam, 2001: 707-712.
 
Tsang VT, Hsia T-Y, Yates R, Anderson RH. Surgical repair of supposedly multiple defects within the apical part of the muscular ventricular septum. Ann Thorac Surg 2002; 73(1):58-62.
 
Hsia T-Y, Migliavacca F, Pittaccio S, Dubini G, Pennati G, de Leval MR. Computational fluid dynamic study of flow optimization in total cavopulmonary connections. J Surg Res, 2004; 116:305-313.
 
Hsia TY, Gruber PJ. Factors influencing neurological outcome following neonatal cardiopulmonary bypass: what we can and cannot control. Ann Thorac Surg, 2006; 81:S2381-8.