Eric Rose

Eric A. Rose is an American cardiothoracic surgeon, scientist, entrepreneur and professor and Chairman of the Department of Population Health Science & Policy, and Associate Director for Clinical Outcomes at Mount Sinai Heart. He is best known for performing the first successful paediatric heart transplant, in 1984 while at NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital (NYP).

Later, he led the REMATCH Trial, published 2001, which compared the permanent implantation of a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) with conventional medical treatment in people with severe heart failure who were not eligible for heart transplantation.

Rose has co-founded several biotechnology companies and has been involved in developing anti-virals to smallpox, new medical technologies and new approaches to Alzheimer's disease and bioterrorism.

He was president of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation for 1993–94.





== Early life and family ==

Rose attended the Bronx High School of Science and was class of 1968. At school, he was part of a rockband called Metropolitan Blues Express, an experience he has described as "diverse" and useful as an exercise in "team-building".

He married anaesthesiologist, Ellise Delphin, and they have four children who all live in Manhattan.





== Early medical career ==



Rose completed both his undergraduate, major in psychology at Columbia University, and his medical degree at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons . After graduation he did his residencies in surgery and thoracic surgery at what was then the Presbyterian Hospital.