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Associate Professor
University of Miami
Gainesville, Florida
Dr. Pipkin is an associate professor of surgery at the University of Miami College of Medicine. Dr. Pipkin joined the Division of Thoracic Surgery, Lung Transplantation, this current year. After completing clinical fellowships in thoracic surgery and lung transplantation at the University of Toronto he joined the University of Florida for 5 years developing the thoracic surgery oncology with focus in lung cancer and sarcoma, extracorporeal life support and lung transplantation. During the COVID pandemic, he performed ECMO and lung transplantation in patients with COVID/ARDS sequelae, being one of the highest volume centers. He was also a research fellow at the Latner Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratories at the University of Toronto.
Dr. Pipkin earned his medical degree at the Lutheran University of Brazil, followed by his general surgery residency at the same University and thoracic surgery residency at Pontifical Catholic University of Porto Alegre in Brazil. At University of Miami, he is the surgical director of ECMO Program. His clinical interests include lung transplantation, thoracic surgical oncology, robotic surgery, and extracorporeal life support, while his research interests include pulmonary metastasis, lung cancer, extracorporeal life support and education in thoracic surgery. Dr. Pipkin is a member of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.
Saturday, October 15, 2022
4:30pm – 6:00pm