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Interdisciplinary Medicine and Biotechnology
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Edward Lowenstein Professor of Anaesthesia
David S. Ginsburg Associate Professor of Surgery in the Field of Cardiothoracic Surgery
William E. Ladd Professor of Child Surgery
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Journal of the American Heart Association
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Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985)
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European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery : official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery
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