Department of Surgery Faculty
Jay D. Pal, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Division: Cardiothoracic Surgery
Email: palj@uthscsa.edu
Office phone: 210-567-2878 or 210-705-6761
Physician referrals: 210-358-4579
Patient appts: 210-358-8001
Board Certifications:
Education:
MD, 2001, University of Health Sciences The Chicago Medical School College of Medicine, Chicago, IL
PhD, 2000, University of Health Sciences, The Chicago Medical School Department of Physiology
and Biopohysics, Chicago, IL
Postgraduate training:
2006-2009, Thoracic Surgery Resident, Duke University Medical Center, Division of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Department of Surgery, Durham, North Carolina
2001-2006, Surgery Resident, University of California San Francisco, East Bay Department of Surgery, Oakland, CA
Clinical interests: heart and lung transplantation, left ventricular assist devices, surgery for heart failure, coronary revascularization, valvular surgery.
Research interests: Outcomes research following heart surgery, heart transplantation, mechanical circulatory support
Presentations:
2009, International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Annual
Meeting and Scientific Sessions: "Immunosuppressive Intensity Should Be
Reduced in Heart Transplant Recipients Greater Than 70 Years of Age"
2009, International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation Annual Meeting and Scientific Sessions, "Successful Management of Pump Pocket Infections in Patients with Implanted Left Ventricular Assist Devices"
2009, Society of Thoracic Surgeons Annual Meeting, "Impact on Survival of Implantable Left Ventricular Assist Devices on Status 1A Heart Transplant Recipients"
2008, American Heart Association Scientific Sessions, "Low operative mortality with implantation of a continuous flow LVAD and impact of concurrent cardiac procedures"
2007, Veterans' Association Medical Center Grand Rounds, "Current Status of Cardiac Transplantation"
2004, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma Annual Meeting, "Admission serum lactate levels do not predict mortality in the acutely injured patient"
2004, American Society of Breast Surgeons Annual Meeting, "Ultrasound-guided mastectomy for breast cancer"
Publications:
Pal, J.D., Piacentino, V., et al,
Impact of LVAD Bridging on Post-Transplant Outcomes, Annals of Thoracic Surgery,
Accepted for publication
Pal, J.D., Klodell, C.T. et al, Low Operative Mortality with Implantation of a Continuous Flow LVAD and Impact of Concurrent Cardiac Procedures, Circulation, September 2009
Jaggers, J. and Pal, J.D., Surgical therapy for anomalous aortic origin of the coronary arteries, Operative Techniques in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Spring 2008
Pal, J.D., Victorino, G.P., et al, Admission serum lactate does not predict mortality in the acutely injured patient, Journal of Trauma, March 2006
Neidlinger, N.A., Pal, J.D., Victorino, G.P, Head computed tomography in trauma patients with seizure disorder: Justifying routine use, Archives of Surgery, September 2005
Victorino, G.P., Chong, T., Pal, J.D., Trauma in the elderly patient, Archives of Surgery, October 2003
Ebihara, L., Liu, X, Pal, J.D., Effect of external magnesium and calcium on human connexin46 hemichannels. Biophysical Journal, January 2003
Pal, J.D., Victorino, G.P., Defining the role of CT scan in blunt abdominal trauma: Use in the hemodynamically normal patient with a depressed level of consciousness, Archives of Surgery, September 2002
Pal, J.D., Liu, X., et al, Connexin46 mutations linked to congenital cataracts show loss of gap junction channel function, American Journal of Physiology, September 2000
Ebihara, L., Pal, J.D., Gap junctions: Molecular basis of cell communication in health and disease, Volume 49, Current Topics in Membranes, January 2000
Pal, J.D., Berthoud, V.M., et al, Molecular mechanism underlying a Cx50 linked congenital cataract, American Journal of Physiology, June 1999
Honors and awards:
2005 Arthur J. Hunnicutt, M.D. Award Outstanding Surgical Resident Teacher
Professional societies:
American College of Surgeons
American Heart Association
International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Biosketch: Dr. Jay Pal received his undergraduate education at the University of California at Berkeley, where he earned a bachelor's degree in Molecular and Cellular Biology. He then matriculated at the Chicago Medical School where he enrolled in the MD/PhD program and began his basic science research in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics. His graduate thesis investigated the molecular mechanisms underlying congenital cataracts and demonstrated new mechanisms for loss-of-function mutations in gap junctional channels. After completing medical school, he joined the general surgery residency at the University of California at San Francisco East Bay program under the direction of Dr. Claude Organ and Dr. Alden Harken. There, he received the Arthur J. Hunnicutt Excellence in Teaching Award. Following general surgery, Dr. Pal traveled to North Carolina for his cardiothoracic training at Duke University. He developed an interest in heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support for the treatment of heart failure.
In the News:
Miniaturized assist devices providing hope for South Texas heart failure patients too ill for transplant:
Jay D. Pal, MD, PhD,
Cardiothoracic Surgery, is specialty-trained in heart transplantation and has extensive experience with mechanical
circulatory support, such as the HeartMate II™, which significantly improves survival for
extremely ill heart failure patients.
In January 2010, the FDA approved use of the HeartMate II™, which provides a
continuous flow left ventricular
assist system, powered by an electrical cable that
passes through the skin to a controller worn around the waist.
New
implanted heart pumps give hope to more heart failure patients — KENS-5 News story
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