HEART SURGEON ON HINSDALE TEam
A veteran heart surgeon renowned for performing “beating-heart surgery” has joined University of Chicago Medicine AdventHealth as a leader and primary surgeon for the cardiovascular service line.
Dr. Scott Schlidt, a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon, assumed his new role July 1 and will work out of the Hinsdale hospital location. His leadership and expertise will further enhance the world-class cardiovascular services offered throughout UChicago Medicine AdventHealth’s community hospitals in Hinsdale, Bolingbrook, La Grange and Glendale Heights, as part of a cardiovascular partnership that grew out AdventHealth and the University of Chicago Medicine’s joint venture in January 2023.
Schlidt brings decades of experience to the job, having performed 150 to 200 open-heart surgeries a year for the last 20 years in the Milwaukee area.
Schlidt most recently worked at Ascension Columbia St. Mary’s Hospital Milwaukee, leading the consolidation of cardiovascular surgery services for Ascension’s southern Wisconsin service area at the hospital. He is an expert in beating-heart surgery, a way to perform surgery without stopping the heart. Also known as “off-pump surgery” because it’s performed without the use of a heart-lung bypass machine, beating-heart surgery reduces the risk of complications, shortens hospital stays and helps patients recover faster.
“I perform 100 percent of my coronary surgeries off-pump,” Schlidt said. “I have been a huge believer throughout my career that it is truly better for patients.
“Intuitively, it makes sense,” he continued. “The vast majority of complications that arise from coronary surgery are due to the body’s adverse reactions to the bypass circuit. By eliminating this one factor, the requirements for blood transfusion, along with stroke risk, renal failure rates, time to discharge and recovery time, are all significantly reduced.”
HINSDALE STUDENTS EARN DEGREES
The following students from Hinsdale earned a bachelor’s degree at the end of the spring 2024 semester.
• Daisy Agne, Miami University
• Sean Allison, Drake University
• Tommy Batina, economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Declan Callahan, Miami University
• Ryan Counts, bachelor’s and master’s, psychology/social work, Miami University
• Joseph Cunningham, Miami University
• Michael Dunphy, Miami University
• Sophia Elbrecht, accounting, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Luke Evans, Miami University
• Maddy Glasby, Miami University
• Jacqueline McMahon, Miami University
• Connor Phillips, computer/data science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Bennet Plucienik-Kapoun, computer sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Lia Reichmann, Drake University
• Emil Riegger, Drake University
• Michael Ryan, information systems, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Khalid Shakir, biology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• John Walsh, Miami University
• Anthony Zayed, Miami University
