University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview Position(s)
Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeon

Other Related Positions Currently Held
Co-Director, Division of Pediatric Cardiology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota

Associate Professor, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Minnesota

Aldo Castañeda Professorship in Congenital Heart Surgery

Board Certifications
American Board of Surgery
American Board of Thoracic Surgery

Sees Patients At
-University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview
-Pediatric Specialty Clinic (Minneapolis)

Clinical Interests
Neonatal Cardiac Surgery
Left Ventricular Assist Devices
Cardiac Transplantation
Adult Congenital Cardiac Surgery

Education
Medical School
Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
 
Site of Residency
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
 
Site of Fellowship
Duke Universtiy, Durham, NC (Cadiothoracic Surgery)
Children's Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, MO (Pediatric and Neonatal Cardiac Surgery)

Research Interest(s)
Characterizing the inflammatory response to cardiopulmonary bypass in neonates

Selected Recent Publications
Patel VS, St. Louis JD, Oduntan O, Landolfo KP. “Intrathoracic Peripheral Nerve Sheath Tumors in  Patients with Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (Von Reckinghausen’s Disease)”   J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg.  2006 Mar; 131(3):736-7.

St. Louis J: Stage I Palliation for Interrupted “Right” Aortic Arch Associated with Mitral Atresia. Ann Thorac Surg (Accepted in Press) 2006.

St. Louis J:  Pentalogy of Cantrell Associated with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome and Herniation of  the Ventricular Mass into the Abdominal Cavity. Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery,  2006 June, 5(3): 200-202.

St. Louis J, Bannan M, Lutin W, Wiles: Surgical Strategies and Outcomes in Patients with Shones Complex: A Retrospective Review. Ann Thorac Surg 84: 1357-63, 2007.

St. Louis J, Wheeler, Derek, Wiles H: Elective use of the left ventricular assist after delayed arterial switch operation for D-transposition of the great vessels with intact ventricular septum. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2007 July, 134: 252-253. 

Wheeler DS, St. Louis JD: Pentalogy of Cantrell associated with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome. Pediatr Cardiol. 2007 Aug 28(4): 311-313.
Qian Zhang, Sonali Gupta, Pulkit Malik, Davin Jagnandan, Mario B. Marrero,

James. D. St Louis, R.Daniel Rudic, David W. Stepp, David J.R. Fulton: NADPH Oxidase 5 is Expresed in Human Blood Vessels and Activates Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase. (Submitted)

St. Louis J, Hopkins R. “The Biological Valve Spectrum and a Rational for Prosthetic Valve Choice”   2nd ed. Spring-Verlag, New York, 2005, pp 602-612.

St. Louis J, McCann R: “Lymphedema”: Sabistons Textbook of Surgery.  The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice, 16th Edition, Townsand (ed) W.B. Saunders Co., 2001, pp 1446-1452

St. Louis J, Jaggers J. “Left Ventricular outflow tract obstruction”: Critical Heart Disease in Infants and Children,  2nd Edition, Nichols (ed) Mosby, 2006, pp 609 -625.

St. Louis J. “Truncus Arteriosus”: Critical Heart Disease in the Infant and Children, 2nd Edition, Nichols (ed) Mosby, 2006, pp 689-699

Wheeler D, St. Louis J. “Congenital Heart Disease: Left to Right Shunt Lesions”: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Basic Science and Clinical Evidence, 1st Edition, Wheeler, Wong and Shanley, Springer-Verlag, 2007 (in press)

St.Louis J  Nomenclature and Classification of Congenital Anomalies of the Heart” : Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Basic Science and Clinical
Evidance, 1st Edition, Wheeler, Wong and Shanley, Springer-Verlag, 2007  (in press)