Cardiac Surgery
Stephanie Fuller, MD
Independent provider
Accepting new patients
Sees newborns through age 14
Penn Heart and Vascular Center

About me

  • Surgical Director, Philadelphia Adult Congenital Heart Center
  • Professor of Clinical Surgery

Education and training

  • Medical School: Eastern Virginia Medical School
  • Residency: Albert Einstein Medical Center
  • Residency: George Washington University Medical Center
  • Residency: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
  • Fellowship: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

Insurance accepted

My Locations

Penn Medicine hospital privileges

  • Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
  • Penn Presbyterian Medical Center: Has privileges to treat patients in the hospital.
Dr. Fuller is an independent physician who is not employed by Penn Medicine.

Qualifications and experience

Treatments and Conditions

My research

Chen JM, Ittenbach RFm Lawrence KM, Hunt ML, Kaplinski M, Mahle M, Fuller S, Maeda K, Nuri MAK, Gardner MM, Mavroudis CD, Mascio CE, Spray TL, Gaynor JW Increased utilization of the hybrid procedure is not associated with improved early survival for newborns with hypoplastic left heart syndrome: A single center experience , European Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery: 2024 (in press)


Greenberg JW, Argo M, Ashfaq A, Luxford JC, Fuentes-Baldemar AA, Kalustian AB, Pena-Munoz SV, Barron DJ, Mertens LL, Husain SA, Heinle JS, Goldie LC, Orr Y, Ayer J, Mavroudis CD, Fuller SM, Morales DLS, Hill GD, Winlaw DS; Ross Collaborative Long-term outcomes following the Ross procedure in neonates and infants: A multi-institutional analysis , Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery: 2024 (Epub)


Geoffrion TR, Aronowitz DI, Mangeot C, Ittenbach RF, Lodge AJ, Fuller SM, Chen JM, Gaynor JW Contemporary outcomes for functional single ventricle with total anomalous pulmonary venous connection , Journal of Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery, 167(6): 2024,2177-2185.e1


Hunt M De Jong IEM, Wells RG, Shah AA, Russo P, Mahle M, Gardner MM, Fuller S, Chen J, Gaynor JW Conjugated hyperbilirubinemia is associated with increased morbidity and mortality after neonatal heart surgery , Cardiology in the Young, 34(5): 2024,1083-1090


Zampi JD, Heinrich KP, Bergersen L, Goldstein BH, Bativala SP, Fuller S, Glatz AC O’Byrne ML, Marion B, Afton K, Lowery R, Yu S, Goldberg CS Neurocognitive function and health-related quality of life in adolescents and young adults with CHD with pulmonary valve dysfunction , Cardiology in the Young, 34(5): 2024,1018-1025


Vaikunth SS, Ortega-Legaspi JM, Conrad DR, Chen S, Daugherty T, Haeffele CL, Teuteberg J, McLean R, MacArthur JW, Woo YJ, Maeda K, Ma M, Nasirov T, HOteit M, Hilscher MB, Wald J, Mandelbaum T, Olthoff KM, Abt PL, Atluri P, Cevasco M, Mavroudis CD, Fuller S, Lui GK, Kim YY Mortality and morbidity after combined heart and liver transplantation in the failing Fontan: An updated dual center retrospective study , Clinical Transplantation, 38(4): 2024,e15302


Jones AL, White Br, Ghosh RM, Mondal A, Ampah S, Ho DY, Whitehead K, Harris MA, Biko DM, Partington S, Fuller S, Cohen MS, Fogel MA Cardiac magnetic resonance predictors for successful primary biventricular repair of unbalanced complete common atrioventricular canal , Cardiology in the Young, 34(2): 2024,387-394


Aronowitz DI, Geoffrion TR, Burstein D, White RM, McHugh-Grant S, Mavroudis CD, Nuri MAK, Maeda K, Chen JM, Mascio CE, Gaynor JW, Fuller S Re-intervention for superior vena cava obstruction after heart transplant , Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 117(1): 2024,198-204


Oh N, Blitzer D, Chen L, Guariento A, Fuller S, Subramanyan RK, St Louis JD, Karamlou T, Members of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons Congenital Workforce The impact of congenital cardiac surgery fellowship on training and practice , Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 116(6): 2023,1320-1327


Hsia J, Abend NS, Gaynor JW, Chen JM, Fuller S, Maeda K, Mavroudis CD, Nuri M, Leonard J, Ampah SB, Licht DJ, Massey SL, Naim MY Incidence of postoperative seizures in neonates following cardiac surgery with regional cerebral perfusion and deep hypothermic circulatory arrest , JTCVS Open, 16: 2023,771-783