Heart & Surgery

Biography

Aris Lacis, cardiac surgeon, professor, MD, Ph.D. graduated from Riga Medical Institute in 1961. General and thoracic surgeon in P. Stradina University Hospital in Riga (1964–1969). Thoracic and cardiac surgeon in the Latvian Centre for Cardiovascular Surgery (1969–1994). From 1994 until 2012 – the head of Pediatric Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery Clinic in University Children’s Hospital, Riga; since 2012 – a consulting professor of this Clinic. Vicepresident of Latvian Society for Cardiovascular Surgery. President of Latvian Association for Pediatric Cardiologists. Author of 395 scientific publications, 3 monographs, and 13 patents. Investigator in more than 10 clinical trials including cardiosurgical procedures performed under deep hypothermia, hybrid procedures, etc. In May 2009 have been used transhuman intramyocardial delivery techniques for treatment (idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy) for the first 3 months of aged patients in the world with autologous bone marrow-derived progenitor cells. In November 2010 the first patient with end-stage pulmonary hypertension received intrapulmonary implantation autologous stem cells.

Research Interest

Pediatric Cardiology, Cardiovascular Surgery