{"id":13085,"date":"2026-07-21T11:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T15:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=13085"},"modified":"2026-07-21T12:03:33","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T16:03:33","slug":"george-tolis-jr-md","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/people\/george-tolis-jr-md\/","title":{"rendered":"George Tolis, Jr., MD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>System Chief, Cardiac Surgery, BMC Health System<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Certification<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>General Surgery<\/li>\n<li><span>Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Clinical Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span>Multiarterial coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) and coronary endarterectomy<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Endocarditis<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Aortic root and arch surgery<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Complex reoperations<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Surgery to address complications from percutaneous devices such coronary stents, percutaneous valves, and implants<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Research Interests<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Cardiac surgical education<\/li>\n<li>Diminishing returns of new technologies vs. established treatment modalities<\/li>\n<li>Lack of statistical backing in modern cardiac surgical established guidelines<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Publications<\/strong><br \/>\nSee a <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/?term=tolis%20george%20%5Bau%5D%20AND%20cardiac\">listing of publications on PubMed<\/a>, a service of the National Library of Medicine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16453,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/13085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16453"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/13085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13122,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/13085\/revisions\/13122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/surgery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}