Biography
Dr. Amy Fiedler is a cardiac surgeon who specializes in caring for patients with heart failure, including those who need heart transplantation. Her focus is on restoring patients' quality of life. Seeking to deliver holistic care, she believes in the powerful connection between mind and body and in the importance of trust and open communication between patient and provider.
Fiedler's research focuses on increasing patient access to heart transplantation by improving current techniques for organ preservation and procurement as well as by developing new ones.
Fiedler earned her medical degree at the George Washington University School of Medicine. She completed residencies in general and cardiothoracic surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. She was in the class of 2020 of the Presidential Leadership Scholars, a program offered through the collaboration of several former U.S. presidents' centers and foundations. She currently serves as surgical director for Team Heart, a nonprofit organization providing cardiac surgery to people in Rwanda.
Awards & Honors
Award | Conferred By | Date |
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Thoracic Surgery Foundation Francis Fontan International Traveling Fellowship | 2022/2023 | |
AATS Surgical Investigator Award | 2021/2023 | |
Presidential Leadership Scholar | 2020/2023 | |
Cohn AATS Surgical Investigator Award | 2020/2021 | |
Carolyn Reed Traveling Fellowship | 2019 |
Education
Institution | Degree | Dept or School | End Date |
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Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School | Cardiothoracic Surgery | 12/2018 | |
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School | General Surgery | 07/2016 | |
The George Washington University | MD | Medicine and Surgery | 06/2009 |
Georgetown University | MS | Microbiology and Immunology | 05/2005 |
Georgetown University | BS | Biology | 05/2004 |
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School | Research Sabattical |
In the News
Publications
- Improving Upon the Ice Ages: Is SherpaPak the Solution?| | View in PubMed
- Increasing Utilization of Extended Criteria Donor Hearts for Transplantation: The OCS Heart EXPAND Trial.| | View in PubMed
- The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Adult Cardiac Surgery Database: 2023 Update on Procedure Data and Research.| | View in PubMed
- Expanding the Donation After Circulatory Death Transplant Pool in the United States.| | View in PubMed
- Is it time to stop living in a HeartMate II world?| | View in PubMed
- Transplantation Outcomes with Donor Hearts after Circulatory Death.| | View in PubMed
- Comment on: Detection and management of HLA sensitization in candidates for adult heart transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Molecules, Machines, and the Perfusate Milieu: Organ Preservation and Emerging Concepts for Heart Transplant.| | View in PubMed
- Computed tomography angiogram for left ventricular assist device thrombosis: When does it help?| | View in PubMed
- Evolving Characteristics of Heart Transplantation Donors and Recipients: JACC Focus Seminar.| | View in PubMed
- Practice patterns of female cardiothoracic surgeons older than age 58 years: Are we making progress?| | View in PubMed
- Applying the ethical framework for donation after circulatory death to thoracic normothermic regional perfusion procedures.| | View in PubMed
- Normothermic regional perfusion surgical technique for the procurement of cardiac donors after circulatory death.| | View in PubMed
- Unconventional use of total artificial heart in a patient with severe, destructive prosthetic valve endocarditis.| | View in PubMed
- Women mentoring women.| | View in PubMed
- Survival after orthotopic heart transplantation in patients with BMI > = 35 with and without diabetes.| | View in PubMed
- Gonococcal endocarditis: A rare manifestation of a common disease in the COVID-19 era.| | View in PubMed
- Left ventricular assist device implantation by bi-thoracotomy technique: A single-center perspective.| | View in PubMed
- Virtual reality, e-learning, and global cardiac surgical capacity-building.| | View in PubMed
- Coronary angiography utilization in the evaluation of a potential heart donor by age: a narrative review.| | View in PubMed
- Commentary: USMLE Step 1 Pass/Fail = Win/Win for Cardiothoracic Surgery Trainee Selection.| | View in PubMed
- You Can't Be What You Can't See.| | View in PubMed
- MicroRNA-21 regulates right ventricular remodeling secondary to pulmonary arterial pressure overload.| | View in PubMed
- Successful heart transplantation in a patient who recovered from COVID-19.| | View in PubMed
- Impact of distance from implant center on mechanical circulatory device patient outcomes.| | View in PubMed
- A Seat at the Table: The Cardiothoracic Surgeon as Surgeon-Advocate.| | View in PubMed
- The changing landscape of percutaneous technology leading to surgical complications.| | View in PubMed
- Orthotopic Heart Transplant: How I Teach It.| | View in PubMed
- Multimodal Cardiopulmonary Bypass Skills Assessment Within a High-Fidelity Simulation Environment.| | View in PubMed
- Intra-aortic balloon pump placement in coronary artery bypass grafting patients by day of admission.| | View in PubMed
- Multi-institutional collaborative mock oral (mICMO) examination for cardiothoracic surgery trainees: Results from the pilot experience.| | View in PubMed
- We Are Great When We Collaborate.| | View in PubMed
- Balancing supply and demand: Review of the 2018 donor heart allocation policy.| | View in PubMed
- We Agree: Cardiopulmonary Bypass Is a Team Sport: Reply.| | View in PubMed
- Cardiothoracic Education in the Time of COVID-19: How I Teach It.| | View in PubMed
- Cardiopulmonary Bypass: How I Teach It.| | View in PubMed
- Long-term discontinuation of warfarin in a patient with HeartMate 3 left ventricular assist device without complication.| | View in PubMed
- Entering the great unknown: Transition to academic practice.| | View in PubMed
- Papillary muscle rupture following routine aortic valve replacement.| | View in PubMed
- New Technology, New Complications: Training the Next Generation of Cardiothoracic Surgeons.| | View in PubMed
- Helpful sternal wound vacuum-assisted closure techniques in two open chest situations: Central extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and sternal infection.| | View in PubMed
- Reply.| | View in PubMed
- Reoperative sternotomy is associated with increased early mortality after cardiac transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- We have met the enemy; the enemy is us.| | View in PubMed
- Correlation of cardiopulmonary bypass duration with acute renal failure after cardiac surgery.| | View in PubMed
- Pain management and safety profiles after preoperative vs postoperative thoracic epidural insertion for bilateral lung transplantation.| | View in PubMed
- Successful Heart Transplantation in a Patient With Loeys-Dietz Syndrome.| | View in PubMed
- Echocardiographic Assessment of Biventricular Function in 249 Patients During the Peri-Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Period.| | View in PubMed
- The effect of donor age on posttransplant mortality in a cohort of adult cardiac transplant recipients aged 18-45.| | View in PubMed
- Appraisal of mentorship in cardiothoracic surgery training.| | View in PubMed
- Impella Placement Guided by Echocardiography Can Be Used as a Strategy to Unload the Left Ventricle During Peripheral Venoarterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation.| | View in PubMed
- Incidental Discovery of an Atypical Cardiac Tumor.| | View in PubMed
- Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Is a Team Sport: Institutional Survival Benefits of a Formalized ECMO Team.| | View in PubMed
- Delayed Presentation of Traumatic Pericardial Rupture: Diagnostic and Surgical Considerations for Treatment.| | View in PubMed
- Perforation of a mesenteric Meckel's diverticulum.| | View in PubMed
- Beyond #ILookLikeASurgeon.| | View in PubMed
- Surgical Treatment of Valvular Heart Disease: Overview of Mechanical and Tissue Prostheses, Advantages, Disadvantages, and Implications for Clinical Use.| | View in PubMed
- Aortic valve replacement associated with survival in severe regurgitation and low ejection fraction.| | View in PubMed
- Current Status of Endovascular Training for Cardiothoracic Surgery Residents in the United States.| | View in PubMed
- Post-Myocardial Infarction Ventricular Septal Defect Six Months following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.| | View in PubMed
- Hybrid approach to the management of infective endocarditis complicated by coronary artery embolism: a case report.| | View in PubMed
- Variability in Integrated Cardiothoracic Training Program Curriculum.| | View in PubMed
- Redesigning Care for Patients With Acute Myocardial Infarction Complicated by Cardiogenic Shock: The "Shock Team".| | View in PubMed
- Gender and Cardiothoracic Surgery Training: Specialty Interests, Satisfaction, and Career Pathways.| | View in PubMed
- Right heart failure: an ischemic model and restraint therapy for treatment.| | View in PubMed
- Targeting the MAGE A3 antigen in pancreatic cancer.| | View in PubMed
- Parathyroid carcinoma in a child: an unusual case of an ectopically located malignant parathyroid gland with tumor invading the thymus.| | View in PubMed