Cardiothoracic Surgery

Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
Associate Professor of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine


Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
3705 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

412-692-5218
412-692-5817 Fax
victor.morell@chp.edu

Medical School:

1988 Ponce School of Medicine, Ponce, Puerto Rico

Residency:

1993 General Surgery Residency, Robert Packer Hospital/Guthrie Clinic, Sayre, PA
1996 Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Boston, MA

Fellowship:

1996 Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship, Children's Hospital Boston, MA
1997 Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship, Great Ormond Hospital for Sick Children, London, U.K.

• 2004 Congenital Heart Surgeons Society
• 2003 The Southern Thoracic Surgical Association
• 2002 PanAmerican Medical Association of Florida

• American Board of Surgery
• American Board of Thoracic Surgery

Victor O. Morell, MD, who joined Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh as chief of the Division of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery in 2004, is a skilled surgeon, administrator, researcher and educator.

He was recruited from Children's Hospital of Tampa, Fla., where he served as chief of Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery and director of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit from 2000 to 2004. Under his leadership, the pediatric cardiovascular program became the largest in Florida.

As an educator, he serves as associate professor of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and is involved in training cardiothoracic residents at the university and Allegheny General Hospital. In Florida, he was influential in providing residents and fellows with a pediatric cardiac intensive care rotation at Children's Hospital of Tampa by build relationships with the University of South Florida and University of Florida.

In the laboratory, Dr. Morell is co-investigator of a National Institutes of Health-funded research initiative to develop an implantable ventricular assist device suitable for use in infants and children. He also is involved in clinical studies related to pediatric cardiothoracic surgery with expertise in the management of complex transposition of the great arteries with a ventricular septal defect and pulmonary stenosis.

Dr. Morell earned a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Purdue University and earned his medical degree from the Ponce School of Medicine, Ponce, Puerto Rico. He completed his surgical residency at Robert Packer Hospital-Guthrie Clinic in Sayre, Pa., where he was chief surgical resident in his final year. He completed his cardiothoracic residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. He also completed fellowships in cardiothoracic surgery at Children's Hospital Boston and at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children in London, England, before joining the medical staff at Children's Hospital of Tampa. In Tampa, Dr. Morell received the Pediatric Specialist of the Year award in 2001.

He has published more than two dozen peer-reviewed manuscripts in scientific journals and has presented numerous abstracts at national meetings. Dr. Morell is board-certified in general surgery and in thoracic surgery.