Specialties
- Cardiothoracic Surgery
- TAVI (Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation)
Practices
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St Vincents Clinic, Level 8, Suite 811
438 Victoria Street
DARLINGHURST
Phone: (02) 8382 6863
Fax: (02) 8382 6865
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Dr Emily Granger is a Cardiothoracic and Heart Lung Transplant surgeon. She has performed more than 3,000 general cardiothoracic operations and more than 300 heart and lung transplants.
Emily completed her medical degree at the University of Queensland (1997) and her surgical fellowship with the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) in 2006. She is involved with the NSW Organ Tissue Donation Service and Deceased Donor Organ Procurement. In 2014 she was involved in the world's first successful 'donation after circulatory death' heart transplant. Since then, the Transplant Unit at St Vincent's Hospital has performed over 80 Dcd heart transplants.
Dr Granger lectures at the Clinical Medical School at St Vincent's Hospital and the University of Notre Dame, and is active in teaching medical students, junior doctors, and trainee surgeons. She is an EMST and CCRISP instructor with RACS. In 2017 she was appointed to the Board of Cardiothoracic Surgical Examiners. She is currently the President of the ANZ Society of Cardiothoracic Surgeons.
Areas of interest:
- TAVI
- ECMO
- Transplant surgery
- Trauma surgery
