Constantine Mavroudis

Constantine Mavroudis (born July 19, 1946) is an American surgeon known for his work in pediatric and congenital heart surgery. He was formerly the Willis J. Potts Professor of Surgery at Northwestern University and was named Professor Emeritus of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 2020.

Early life and education Mavroudis was born in Thasos, Greece and immigrated to the United States with his family in 1947. He was raised in Jersey City, New Jersey and graduated from Dickinson High School in 1964. He earned a degree in biological sciences from Rutgers University in 1968 and a medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1973. Mavroudis completed surgical training from the University of California, San Francisco in 1981.

Career In 1981, Mavroudis joined the University of Louisville School of Medicine as a faculty member and later became Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery. In June 1986, he performed one of the earliest successful human infant heart transplant procedures on a 23-day-old boy at Kosair Children’s Hospital in Louisville. From 1990 to 2008, he served as Division Director of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Surgeon-in-Chief at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He was the A.C. Buehler Professor of Surgery from 1990 to 2002, and the Willis J. Potts Professor of Surgery from 2002 to 2008 at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.

Between 2008 and 2011, he chaired the Department of Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic. From 2011 to 2019, Mavroudis worked at AdventHealth for Children in Orlando, Florida, where he established and developed the congenital heart surgery program.

Mavroudis was president of the Congenital Heart Surgeons’ Society from 2004 to 2006, and President of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association in 2002. He was inducted into the Rutgers Hall of Distinguished Alumni in 2025.

Publications Mavroudis has contributed to over 575 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters in the fields of congenital heart surgery, pediatric cardiology, and cardiothoracic surgical techniques. He has edited surgical textbooks, including Pediatric Cardiac Surgery (5th edition), Atlas of Pediatric Heart Surgery, Atlas of Adult Congenital Heart Surgery, Bioethical Controversies in Pediatric Cardiology and Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, and Management of Perioperative Complications of Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery. He previously served as Deputy Editor for Congenital Heart Surgery at The Annals of Thoracic Surgery and is currently Associate Editor for Cardiology in the Young and Consulting Editor for the World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery.