Jason Fitzgerald, MD, FACS
- American Board of Surgery
- American Board of Thoracic Surgery
Medical School University of Washington School of Medicine
Residency University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
Fellowships/Internships
- Surgical Research Fellow, Division of Transplantation, University of California, Davis Medical Center, Sacramento, CA
- Resident in Thoracic Surgery, University of Utah Affiliated Hospitals, Salt Lake City, UT
Practice Locations
- Franciscan Health Crown Point
1205 South Main Street, Suite 101
Crown Point, IN 46307
Phone: (219) 662-0077
Fax: (219) 681-6701
Societies & Affiliations
- Society of Thoracic Surgeons
- American College of Surgeons
Special Surgical Interests
- Extensive experience with coronary revascularization and valve repair/replacement procedures
- Transcatheter aortic valve (TAVR) surgeon. Experience as the primary operator in transfemoral, transapical and transaortic approaches.
- Co-created and directed two different TAVR programs as Surgical Director of Structural Heart Procedures
- Minimally invasive valve experience, including aortic valve replacement using right anterior thoracotomy, mitral valve replacement and repair, tricuspid valve repair, and maze.
- Complex aortic surgery experience, including aortic root replacements, hypothermic circulatory arrest, hybrid arch replacement procedures and TEVAR
- Experienced general thoracic surgeon
- Experienced pectus excavatum repair surgeon
- Experience with ECMO initiation
- Experience with minimally invasive hybrid ablation for atrial fibrillation (Convergent)
- From 2008 through 2011 practiced a full range of peripheral vascular surgery, including carotid endarterectomy, EVAAR, TEVAR, open aortic reconstruction, and lower extremity arterial reconstruction