Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeons

Charles B. Huddleston, M.D.
Sanjiv K. Gandhi, M.D.

Charles B. Huddleston, M.D.
Charles B. Huddleston, M.D., is professor of surgery and chief of pediatric cardiothoracic surgery at Washington University School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Vanderbilt University and completed his training in general and cardiothoracic surgery at the same institution. He then spent a year as senior registrar at the Hospital for Sick Children in London, England. Huddleston is certified by both the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.

Huddleston’s research interests reflect his intense clinical involvement in pediatric cardiothoracic surgery and thoracic organ transplantation. He also has been instrumental in the development of technical modifications of the Fontan operation aimed at avoiding serious cardiac arrhymias.

Huddleston is listed in Best Doctors in America (Best Doctors, Inc.) in 2006.

Dr. Huddleston's CV

Sanjiv K. Gandhi, M.D.
Sanjiv K. Gandhi, M.D., is an associate professor of surgery at Washington University School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from McGill University in Montreal. He completed his general surgery residency at Saint Louis University, a cardiothoracic surgery research fellowship at Washington University School of Medicine and a cardiothoracic surgery residency at the University of Pittsburgh. He finished his training with fellowships in pediatric cardiothoracic surgery at Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh (CHP) and pediatric cardiovascular surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Prior to his appointment at Washington University, he served as the acting director of the Section of Congenital Health Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh and as associate director of the ECMO program and surgical director of Pediatric Cardiopulmonary Transplantation at CHP.

Gandhi is certificed by the American Board of Surgery, the American College of Surgery, the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada-Cardiac Surgery. He is experienced in all aspects of congenital heart surgery, with particular expertise in pediatric electrophysiology, cardiopulmonary transplantation and mechanical support for pediatric heart failure.

Dr. Gandhi's CV