Thomas Spray

Thomas L. Spray (born 1948) is an American cardiothoracic surgeon who served as Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and the Mortimer J. Buckley Jr. MD Endowed Chair in Cardiac Surgery at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and Professor of Surgery at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He retired in 2018.

Early life Spray was born in Rochester, MN on August 28, 1948. The family moved to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where he completed high school. He was inspired by his father's orthopedic surgery practice to follow a career in medicine, being particularly impressed by his experiences accompanying his father on a medical mission trip to Algeria.

Accomplishments Spray was one of the early adopters of ECMO. Plus ratio quam vis medal from the Jagiellonian University, 2017

Appearances in popular media Features in Dateline NBC "Saving a Broken Heart" about an infant with hypoplastic left heart syndrome undergoing the Norwood procedure