About Dr. Carvalho
Juliano grew up in Brazil where medical school is six years long straight out of high school. He attended medical school from March 2013 to December 2018 at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina in Florianopolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Upon completing medical school, he started a research fellowship in Cardiovascular Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He was part of Dr. Hartzell Schaff surgical outcomes research group in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Juliano worked at the Mayo Clinic from February 2019 to May 2020, and during his time at the Mayo Clinic he also completed a Postdoctoral Certificate Program in Clinical and Translational Sciences. From July 2020 to June 2025 he completed a General Surgery residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. During his residency, from July 2022 to June 2024 he was able to complete the Dartmouth National Implementation Science Program in Cardiothoracic Surgery.
He started his Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship at Penn in July 2025, and his fields of interest within the specialty are heart and lung transplantation and mechanical circulatory support.
Education
July 2020 - June 2025
The University of Texas Medical Branch
General Surgery Residency
July 2022 - June 2024
Dartmouth National Implementation Science Program in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Scholar in the Clinical and Implementation Research Skills Program (CIRSP)
February 2019 - June 2020
Mayo Clinic – Rochester
Research Fellowship
Outcomes-based clinical research in Cardiovascular Surgery, with special focus on the surgical treatment of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Completed Postdoctoral Certificate Program in clinical and translational sciences
March 2013 - December 2018
Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
Doctor of Medicine, ranked 1st of the class
Societies
- The Society of Thoracic Surgeons - Resident Member
Awards
October 2024
Raleigh Ross Scholarship – Texas Surgical Society
2024 - 2025
Outstanding Resident Award Nominee (General Surgery)
Graduate Medical Education, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
2023 - 2024
Outstanding General Surgery Resident Award
Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
2022 - 2023
Outstanding General Surgery Resident Award
Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
2020 - 2021
Outstanding Surgical PGY-1 House Officer Award
Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
2020 - 2021
Outstanding PGY-1 Resident Award Nominee (General Surgery)
Graduate Medical Education, The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
December 2018
University Honors – Award given to 1st of the class (Medical School)
Certificate of performance – grade 9 (or higher) out of 10 in 9 out of 12 semesters during medical school
November 2016
2nd place at the I Congress South-Southeast of the Brazilian Society of Surgical Oncology oral presentation contest
University entrance examination – 5th out of 35161 applicants
Research
After medical school and prior to starting general surgery residency, Juliano completed a research fellowship in Cardiovascular Surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. He was part of Dr. Hartzell Schaff surgical outcomes research group in hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM). With focus on the surgical treatment of HOCM, we investigated, described and categorized anomalous papillary muscles, evaluated the clinical significance of the mitral valve leaflet length in these patients as well as the hemodynamic effects of general anesthesia. They also described the improvement in gastrointestinal bleeding with septal myectomy in similarity to patients with aortic stenosis and Heyde syndrome. During his time at the Mayo Clinic, he completed a Postdoctoral Certificate Program in Clinical and Translational Sciences where he received formal training on conducting research studies and statistical analyses. During residency he was able to broaden my research interests and present in national conferences in general thoracic topics such as achalasia, rib fixation, and adult cardiac surgical topics like extubation in the operating room after elective coronary artery bypass grafting.
Publications
- Lentz Carvalho J, Keshavamurthy S. Pulmonary Embolism in Donor Lungs – Incidence and Management. Int J Angiol. 2024 Mar 15; 33(2): 128-131. doi: 10.1055/s-0044-1782536. eCollection 2024 Jun. PMID: 38846992
- Lentz Carvalho J, Keshavamurthy S. Femoro-femoral veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation: art and science. J Thorac Dis. 2024 Jan 30;16(1):816-817. doi: 10.21037/jtd-23-1654. Epub 2024 Jan 24. PMID: 38410571
- Lentz Carvalho J, Iribarne A. The Sustained Benefit of Mitral Valve Repair versus Replacement in Elderly Patients with Degenerative Mitral Regurgitation. [published online ahead of print, 2023 Jul 28]. Ann Thorac Surg. 2023;S0003-4975(23)00802-0. PMID: 37517531
- Sun D, Schaff HV, Lentz Carvalho J, Nishimura RA, Dearani JA, Ommen SR, Blackshear JL, Geske JB. Improvement in gastrointestinal bleeding after septal myectomy for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2022 Apr 20:S0022-5223(22)00480-9. PMID: 35577596.
- Suzuki Y, Cass S, Lentz Carvalho J, DeAnda A, Radhakrishnan RS. Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation for Patients With Thoracic Neoplasms: An Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (ELSO) Registry Analysis. Ann Thorac Surg. 2022 Mar 26:S0003-4975(22)00451-9. PMID: 35351418.
- Carvalho JL, Ashikhmina E, Abel MD, Viehman JK, Lahr BD, Geske JB, Schaff HV. Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy: Discrepancy Between Hemodynamic Measurements in the Cardiac Laboratory and Operating Room Is to Be Expected. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2022 Feb;36(2):422-428. PMID: 34172363.
- Lentz Carvalho J, Schaff HV, Morris CS, Nishimura RA, Ommen SR, Maleszewski JJ, Dearani JA. Anomalous papillary muscles-Implications in the surgical treatment of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2022 Jan;163(1):83-89.e1. PMID: 32414597.
- Cui H, Schaff HV, Lentz Carvalho J, Nishimura RA, Geske JB, Dearani JA, Lahr BD, Lee AT, Bos JM, Ackerman MJ, Ommen SR, Maleszewski JJ. Myocardial Histopathology in Patients With Obstructive Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2021 May 4;77(17):2159-2170. PMID: 33926651.
- Lentz Carvalho J, Schaff HV, Nishimura RA, Ommen SR, Geske JB, Lahr BD, Newman DB, Dearani JA. Is anterior mitral valve leaflet length important in outcome of septal myectomy for obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy? J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2021 Jan 21:S0022-5223(21)00106-9. PMID: 33632527.