Carl L. Backer, MD

Specialties

• Transplantation - heart

  Offers complete transplant care for pediatric patients within a single hospital. Learn more »

• Cardiovascular-thoracic Surgery

  Treats congenital and acquired heart problems, defects of peripheral blood vessels and lungs, conditions requiring cardiac pacemakers as well as a range of non-cardiac conditions including pectus excavatum, vascular rings, and tracheal abnormalities. Learn more »

Special interests

Congenital heart surgery, Berlin Heart, heart transplantation, tracheal surgery

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Health care plans accepted

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• Aetna (EPO, HMO, POS, PPO)
• Beech Street (PPO)
• Best Doctors (PPO)
• Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois (HMO, POS, PPO)
• CCN (PPO)
• CIGNA (EPO, HMO, POS, PPO)
• Employer Coalition on Health (HMO)
• First Health (PPO)
• Great West Health Care (PPO)
• Harmony Health Plans of Illinois (HMO)
• Health Alliance Medical Plans (HMO, POS, PPO)
• HealthNetwork - Wellmark (PPO)
• HFN Inc. (EPO, PPO)
• Humana Inc. (HMO, POS, PPO)
• Illinois Health Connect (HMO)
• Managed Care Strategies (PPO)
• Multiplan (PPO)
• National Preferred Provider Network (PPO)
• Preferred Plan (PPO)
• Private Healthcare Systems, Inc. (POS, PPO)
• Sagamore - Indiana (PPO)
• UniCare (HMO, PPO)
• United Healthcare of Illinois (EPO, HMO, POS, PPO)
• WEA Insurance Group (PPO)

Notes

• Children's Memorial at Central DuPage Hospital: inpatient consultations
• Dr. Backer was 15th in the country to receive the new subspecialty certification in congenital cardiac surgery from the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. This new certification recognizes surgeons who have met a high national standard and are experts in congenital heart surgery with significant professional accomplishments in the field.

Certifications

Board certified in Congenital Cardiac Surgery; Thoracic Surgery

Publications

View a partial list of Dr. Backer's publications

Available from the National Library of Medicine's PubMed online database.

Extended profile

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