Zohair Al-Halees
Research
a) Evaluation of the sympathetic functional state in rheumatic valvular heart disease, started May 1992 to present
b) Medtronic Investigator Group – Latissimus dorsi dynamic cardiomyoplasty (Project ended 1997)
c) Member, Endocarditis Working Group of International Society for Chemotherapy (I.S.C.), coordinated by Professor Claude Carbon, Assistance Publique 46, Rue Henri Hucliard 75877, Paris – Cedex 18. (Project ended 1998) resulted in multiple publications
d) Clinical trial of Glycar Quadrileaflet Mitral Valve (QMV) in patients requiring Mitral Valve Replacement (March 1998 to December 2006)
e) Congenital Heart Defects Registry (1997 to present)
f) Long term follow up of patients who underwent the Ross operation. (January 1990 to present).
g) Long-term Valve follow-up Registry Database (December 2000 to present)
h) Surgical Registry DB (December 2000 to present)
i) Patients who had CABG after PET Scan (December 2000 to present)
j) Multi-vessel access for coronary artery bypass: Regional flow studies/ pre-clinical training (November 2001 to present)
k) Use of robotic assistance for endoscopic/minimally invasive cardiac and thoracic surgery/ pre-clinical training certified in the use of the Da Vinci System.
l) Arterial switch operation for TGA with an intact ventricular septum (February 2000 to present)
m) Pure rheumatic MR in young population up to 40 years of age who underwent operation (May 2002 to present)
n) Contegra graft in heart surgery (July 2002 to present)
o) Scimitar syndrome clinical course and results after surgery (September 2002 to present
p) Scimitar syndrome and coil embolization (October 2002 to present)
q) Truncus arteriosus (February 2003 to present)
r) Modified Ross/Konno Procedure
s) Stem Cell transplantation

