John Conte M.D.
“You can’t help but feel a personal attachment to young patients waiting for a heart transplant. They become like your adopted children,” says Johns Hopkins cardiac surgeon John Conte about the dozens of teenagers and young adults he has looked after while they wait, sometimes for several years, for an organ transplant. Conte, himself a father of five, says the availability of heart-assist pumps and newer medications have helped patients survive healthier and longer, but there is still a short supply of donors for the nearly 3,000 people in North America on transplant waitlists for a new heart.
A graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Medicine, Conte performed his first transplant in 1992 while completing his surgical training at Stanford University in California. He came to Hopkins in 1998, where he is now director of the heart and lung transplantation program and the ventricular-assist device program. Conte is an associate professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and its Heart Institute.
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