Bassam “Sammy” Shukrallah, MD, is now seeing patients at Baptist Health Cardiothoracic Surgery Clinic. Shukrallah specializes in thoracic surgery/transplants.
Shukrallah earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Houston and a medical degree from St. Matthews University School of Medicine in the Cayman Islands, British West Indies. Before completing a residency at the University of South Alabama, Shukrallah served as a resident and research resident at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Following medical school, Shukrallah served as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Infectious Diseases at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. He completed advanced fellowship training in cardiothoracic surgery at the University of Minnesota Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Prior to joining Baptist Health, Shukrallah served as assistant professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Cardiac Surgery and as a cardiothoracic surgeon in the Section of Cardiac Surgery at Minneapolis Heart Institute for over three years. He was an assistant professor of cardiothoracic surgery in The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Department of Cardiac Surgery, where he also served as surgical director of the ECMO Program.
Shukrallah is a member of the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, The Society of Thoracic Surgeons and Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO).
Baptist Health Cardiothoracic Surgery Clinic is located in Suite 200 of Medical Towers I on the campus of Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock. The clinic offers comprehensive surgical options from bypass surgery to a heart transplant.