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Meet Our Team - Christian Lee Gilbert, MD, FACS
Cardiovascular Surgeon
Bon Secours Heart Institute
Christian Lee Gilbert, MD, is a board-certified pediatric
cardiothoracic surgeon with the Bon Secours
Heart Institute’s affiliated pediatric cardiac surgery
program at The Children’s Hospital of the Kings
Daughters (CHKD). Prior to joining Bon Secours and
CHKD, Dr. Gilbert served at Le Bonheur Children’s
Medical Center at the University of Tennessee College
of Medicine in Memphis since 2003. Most
recently, he was the associate medical director for
cardiovascular critical care and an associate professor
of pediatrics and surgery. He also served as
chief of pediatric cardiovascular surgery and medical
director of pediatric cardiovascular surgery at Le
Bonheur. From 1991 to 2003, he served at Geisinger
Medical Center in Danville, Pennsylvania, where
he assumed the position of chief pediatric Cardiovascular
Surgery in 1992. Dr. Gilbert was also an
attending physician at St. Mary Corwin Hospital in
Pueblo, Colorado, and was a general medical officer
for the U.S. Public Health Service.
In addition to his work at the University of Tennessee,
Dr. Gilbert’s other academic appointments
have included serving as a clinical instructor of cardiothoracic
surgery at the Yale University School of
Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, and a clinical
instructor of surgery at Temple University School
of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Dr. Gilbert received a bachelor’s degree in chemistry
from Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania,
and his medical degree from Temple University.
He completed an internship in family medicine at
St. Mary Corwin Hospital, University of Colorado
Health Sciences Center. He did general surgery residencies
at Yale University and Temple University,
and a cardiothoracic surgery residency, also at Yale.
He completed a pediatric cardiac surgery fellowship
at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 1991.
He has co-authored and published numerous articles
and has presented papers to many medical societies.
His holds membership in the International
Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery, the
Pennsylvania Association of Thoracic Surgeons,
the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the W.P. Ritchie,
Jr., MD, Ph.D. Surgical Society, the Mid-South Pediatric
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