Saint Francis Medical Partners recently welcomed two board-certified cardiothoracic surgeons – James W. Blatchford, III, MD, and Harbinder Singh, MD – to Saint Francis Cardiovascular; Thoracic Surgery Associates.
Blatchford
For Dr. Blatchford, this is a return to Saint Francis Medical Partners, where he practiced
for 10 years before leaving in 2021 to join the medical staff at Lt. Col. Luke Weathers, Jr. VA Medical Center in Memphis. Singh comes to Saint Francis Medical Partners after practicing, most recently, at hospitals in Tucson, Arizona, and Las Vegas, Nevada.
Blatchford earned his undergraduate degree, with distinction in chemistry, at Duke
University in Durham, N.C., where he graduated magna cum laude. He went on to earn his medical degree at the Duke University School of Medicine. He trained in General Surgery at the Yale University School of Medicine, where he was Chief Resident and Instructor in Surgery. Blatchford completed a residency and a fellowship in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas (Parkland Memorial Hospital).
Singh
Singh earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, and his medical degree at Chicago Medical School/Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine Science in North Chicago, Illinois. He completed residencies in General Surgery at the University of Chicago Metropolitan Group Hospitals in Chicago and in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Boston University Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Singh also was the Senior Resident in Congenital Cardiac Surgery at Harvard Medical School/Boston Children’s Hospital. He went on to complete a fellowship in the Department of Cardiac Surgery at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and a Mini-Endovascular Fellowship in the department of Vascular Surgery at Mt. Sinai Hospital in
New York.