{"id":1407,"date":"2024-12-01T08:11:40","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T08:11:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sidra.org\/?post_type=doctor&#038;p=1407"},"modified":"2025-04-30T09:14:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T06:14:11","slug":"olivier-ghez","status":"publish","type":"doctor","link":"https:\/\/www.sidra.org\/doctors\/olivier-ghez\/","title":{"rendered":"Olivier Ghez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dr. Olivier Ghez is the Division Chief of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery at Sidra Medicine, a specialist women\u2019s and children\u2019s hospital in Doha, Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Ghez joined Sidra Medicine in April 2018. He specializes in neonatal, paediatric and adult congenital cardiac surgery, particularly for complex heart malformations including complex neonatal and pediatric heart surgery, aortic and mitral valve repairs for congenital patients and cone repair for tricuspid valve Ebstein malformation. Along with a highly specialized team of interventional cardiologists, Dr. Ghez and his team apply innovative hybrid techniques and cosmetic approaches to cardiac surgery for simple malformations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prior to joining Sidra Medicine, Dr. Ghez was the lead pediatric cardiac surgeon at Royal Brompton Hospital in London, U.K. During his 10 year tenure at the hospital, he was honoured by the ITV\/Sun\u2019s Special Recognition Health Star Award for having successfully operated on the hearts of more than 1500 new born babies, infants and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Ghez received his medical degree from the University Aix-Marseille II in France as well as a master\u2019s degree in physiology and biology of circulation from the University of Paris VII. 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