George Tellides MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery (Section of Cardiac Surgery) and of Investigative Medicine; Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Veterans Affairs Medical Center

Departments & Organizations
Vascular Biology and Therapeutics ProgramSkin Diseases Research Center, Yale
T32 Mentors
Surgery: Cardiac Surgery
Biography
George Tellides, MD, PhD, earned his medical degree from the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and his PhD from the University of Oxford. Dr. Tellidies is dedicated to saving and improving the lives of patients with cardiac disease and heart failure and concentrates his clinical practice at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, CT.
Education
- M.D., University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg , 1983
- Ph.D., University of Oxford , 1988
Articles

Winter 2013
Yale scientists and a patient’s family join forces to find a cure
Chloe Kiev, an otherwise perfect baby, was born with a troubling trait—a very loud heart murmur. It was so loud, in...

Spring 2002
Yale group launches new effort to understand why organ transplants fail
By 11 a.m., Yinong Wang, M.D., is performing his fifth transplant procedure of the day. Each one is the same, and not...
Summer 2000
Preventive factor may be a cause of heart disease
According to a Yale study, a key immune factor produced by white blood cells that was thought to prevent hardening of...



