27 Facts About Redmond Burke

Redmond P Burke was born on 4 November 1958 and is an American congenital heart surgeon, innovator, software developer, author, inventor, and founder of The Congenital Heart Institute at Miami Children's Hospital in Miami, Florida.

Redmond Burke starred in the ABC pilot television show The Miracle Workers.

Redmond Burke was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to a US Navy flight navigator, Redmond Joseph Burke, and his wife Claire Lorraine Burke, both from San Francisco, California.

Redmond Burke was educated in public schools - Portal Elementary School, John F Kennedy Junior High School, and Monta Vista High School, where he co-captained the varsity wrestling and Championship football teams, and won the Outstanding Wrestler award at the Central Coast Section Championships in 1976.

Redmond Burke placed fifth at 165 pounds, in the California State Wrestling Championships that year.

Redmond Burke walked on and made the Stanford varsity football team as a freshman under NFL Hall of Fame coach Jack Christiansen.

Redmond Burke co-captained the varsity rugby team, touring New Zealand and Canada, where he played wing forward.

Redmond Burke graduated with Honors and Distinction, with election to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.

Redmond Burke attended medical school at Harvard University from 1980 to 1984.

In 1989, after completing general surgery training at the Brigham, and in preparation for cardiac surgery training, Redmond Burke spent a year as a research fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the Spectroscopy Laboratory, under Michael Stephen Feld, PhD.

Redmond Burke developed the idea that Laser-induced fluorescence spectroscopy could be used to diagnose rejection in transplanted cardiac tissue, thereby avoiding the need for traumatic biopsies.

When Hanley accepted the position of Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco, Redmond Burke was offered his position, and he joined the Children's Hospital Boston attending staff in 1992, becoming an Instructor in Surgery at the Harvard Medical School.

Redmond Burke explored the possibility of using endoscopic surgical techniques for congenital heart surgery, designing instruments and techniques in the laboratory.

Redmond Burke began clinical applications in 1993, subsequently performing a series of surgical firsts, including the world's first endoscopic vascular ring division, diaphragm plication, and thoracic duct ligation.

Redmond Burke became a recognized expert in the field of minimally invasive pediatric cardiac surgery.

Redmond Burke developed thoracoscopic surgical instruments with engineers from Pilling Weck, Inc.

In early 1995, Castaneda retired, and Redmond Burke was invited to interview for a position as Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at Miami Children's Hospital in Miami, Florida.

At age 36, Redmond Burke became the Chief of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery at Miami Children's Hospital.

Many of these procedures used the video assisted thoracoscopic techniques Redmond Burke developed in Boston.

Redmond Burke performed the first open tricuspid valve replacement on a patient with a transcatheter valve after the patient developed severe early onset endocarditis in his Melody Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve in the Tricuspid position.

When Burke arrived in Miami in 1995, he hired Jeffrey A White to act as a technology advisor, working with the heart team to find and develop applications of information technology to improve medical outcomes.

In 2013, Redmond Burke's team was selected for the Google Glass Explorer program after presenting a YouTube video demonstrating how they intended to "heal with Glass".

Redmond Burke initiated meetings with hospital administrator Janet Livingstone, CEO John Hillenmeyer, and Medical Director Mark Swanson MD, proposing that the Miami Children's Cardiac Team help rebuild the Arnold Palmer Heart Program.

Immediately after hurricane Irma in 2017, Redmond Burke and colleagues Kristine Guleserian MD, Anthony Rossi MD, and Darline Santana-Acosta, MD worked with physicians in Puerto Rico to transport newborn babies with critical heart defects to Miami for urgent surgical care.

Redmond Burke was cast as the host of the ABC network television reality program Miracle Workers, which first aired March 6,2006.

Redmond Burke wrestled with the ethical conflicts of a medical reality TV show.

Redmond Burke has appeared on CNN, Good Morning America, The Today Show, CNN Showbiz Tonight, Extra and Entertainment Tonight to describe novel medical achievements.