Albert Pacifico

Albert D. Pacifico, M.D. is an American cardiac surgeon. Born in Brooklyn NY, he spent his entire career at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), arriving as a resident in 1967, and retiring in 2006.^[1] During his career he was known as an especially skillful surgeon who performed a very high volume (more than 30,000)^[2] of pediatric and adult cardiovascular surgeries.

Overall he has been a joint or principal author of 17papers each of which have been cited over 100 times. according to Google Scholarref> </ref> His most cited papers are

• R S Ballal, N C Nanda, R Gatewood, B D'Arcy, T E Samdarshi, W L Holman, J K Kirklin, A D Pacifico, "Usefulness of transesophageal echocardiography in assessment of aortic dissection." Circulation r doi 10.1161/01.CIR.84.5.190 with 234 citations
• George Cassady, M.D., Dennis T. Crouse, M.D., John W. Kirklin, M.D., Martha J. Strange, M.D., Clinton H. Joiner, M.D., Ph.D., Guillermo Godoy, M.D., Gregory T. Odrezin, M.D., Gary R. Cutter, Ph.D., James K. Kirklin, M.D., Albert D. Pacifico, M.D., Monica V. Collins, M.S.N., William A. Lell, M.D., Celia Satterwhite, M.D., and Joseph B. Philips, III, M.D. N Engl J Med 1989; 320:1511-1516June 8, 1989DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198906083202302 with 241 citations.

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