Michael Wait, MD

Professor
Cardio Thoracic Surgery

Contact Information

UT Southwestern Medical Center
5323 Harry Hines Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75390

Office Phone: 214-645-7700
Office Fax: 214-645-7701

michael.wait@utsouthwestern.edu

To make an appointment, call 214-645-8300.

Education

ResidencyParkland Memorial Hospital - GME (1992)
ResidencyUT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (1990)
ResidencyUT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (1985)
Medical SchoolUT Southwestern Medical Center (1983)

Research Interests

Randomized Evaluation of CABG On vs. Off Pump (RECOOP)
Randomized Trial of Variable Anticoagulation with On-X Valve

Publications

Featured
The thoracic surgeon's role in the management of patients with HIV infection and AIDS

DiMaio, JM and Wait, MA , Chest Surgery Clinics of North America , February 1999; (9/1):97-112

Featured
Surgical technique - Thoracic organ recovery

Wait MA, Meyer DM, Jessen ME, Ring WSR , The Handbook of Organ Retrieval and Preservation , 1999; (1st Edition):Chapter 9

Featured
Management of Multiple Organ Donors

Meyer DM, Jessen ME, Wait MA, Ring WSR , The Handbook of Organ Retrieval and Preservation , 1999; (1st Edition):Chapter 8

The Cardiovascular System

Beckles D, Wait MA , in The Physiologic Basis of Surgery, 4th ed , October 2007; (Lippincott Williams):& Wilkins

Delayed presentations of aortic valve endocarditis in patients with thermal injury

Apple, J., Hunt JL., Wait, M., Purdue, G. , Journal of Trauma, Injury, Infection, and Critical Care , 2002; (52):406-409

Assessment of aortic regurgitation by transesophageal color doppler imaging of the vena contracta: validation against an intraoperative aortic flow probe

Willett D, Hall S, Jessen M, Wait M, Grayburn P , Journal of American College of Cardiology , 2001; (37):1450-1455

Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery

Wait, MA , Baylor University Medical Center Proceedings , 2000; (13/2):121-127

Early evacuation of traumatic retained hemothoraces using thoracoscopy: a prospective randomized trial

Meyer DM, Jessen ME, Wait MA, Estrera AS , Annals of Thoracic Surgery , 1997; (64):1396-1401

Honors/Awards

President's Research Council Award

UTSouthwestern (1993)

Alpha Omega Alpha

(1983)

Alpha Epsilon Delta

Premedical Honor Society (1979)

Phi Beta Kappa

(1979)

Professional Associations/Affiliations

American College of Surgeons

Society of Thoracic Surgeons