page_title: Eric Rose
section_title: Early medical career
hierarchical_section_title: Eric Rose / Early medical career
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial View of Columbia Medical Center Deutsch: Übersichtsaufnahme des Medizinisches Zentrum von Columbia University
context_page_description: Eric A. Rose is an American cardiothoracic surgeon, scientist, entrepreneur and professor and Chairman of the Department of Population Health Science & Policy, and Associate Director for Clinical Outcomes at Mount Sinai Heart. He is best known for performing the first successful paediatric heart transplant, in 1984 while at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital.
  Later, he led the REMATCH Trial, published 2001, which compared the permanent implantation of a Left Ventricular Assist Device with conventional medical treatment in people with severe heart failure who were not eligible for heart transplantation.
  Rose has co-founded several biotechnology companies and has been involved in developing anti-virals to smallpox, new medical technologies and new approaches to Alzheimer's disease and bioterrorism.
  He was president of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation for 1993–94.
context_section_description: Rose completed both his undergraduate, major in psychology at Columbia University and his medical degree at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons .  After graduation he did his residencies in surgery and thoracic surgery at what was then the Presbyterian Hospital.
  He spent more than 25 years at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, now NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital / Columbia University Medical Center. During his career at NYP, he held numerous positions including director of the Clinical Perfusion Service and of the Surgical Cardiac Intensive Care Unit, chief of the Cardiothoracic Surgical Service, the Morris and Rose Milstein Professor of Surgery, and associate dean for translational research.
  He was president of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) for 1993–94.
caption: NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia campus
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