Faculty

A. Marc Gillinov, MD
Chair, Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic

Sudish Murthy, MD, PhD
Section Head, Thoracic Surgery
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic

Milind Desai, MD, MBA
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Vice Chair of Education and CME
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic

Lars G. Svensson, MD, PhD
Chief, Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic

Faisal Bakaeen, MD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic

Marijan Koprivanac, MD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic

Siva Raja, MD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic

Gianluca Torregrossa, MD
Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic

Abbas E. Abbas, MD, MS
System Chair, Department of Thoracic Surgery and Associate Director of Surgical Oncology,
Catholic Health
Long Island, NY

Yazan AlJamal, MBBS
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

Arman Arghami, MD
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN

Husam Balkhy, MD
Director, Robotic & Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL

Johannes Bonatti, MD
Director, Cardiac Robotic Surgery
UPMC
Pittsburgh, PA

Chase Brown, MD
Surgical Director, Coronary Revascularization
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA

Daniel Burns, MD, MPhil
St. Michael's Hospital
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Bryan Burt, MD
Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery 
UCLA Health
Los Angeles, CA

Robert Cerfolio, MD, MBA
Chief, Clinical Thoracic Surgery
NYU Langone Health
New York, NY

Joanna Chikwe, MD
Chair, Department of Cardiac Surgery
Cedars-Sinai
Los Angeles, CA

Mark Dylewski, MD
Chair, Thoracic Surgery
Baptist Health South Florida
Miami, FL

Sidhu Gangadharan, MD
Chief, Thoracic Surgery & Interventional Pulmonology 
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Boston, MA

Arnar Geirsson, MD
Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery 
Columbia University
New York, NY

Eugene Grossi, MD
Stephen B. Colvin Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
NYU Langone Medical Center
New York, NY

T. Sloane Guy, MD, MBA
Director, Minimally Invasive & Robotic Cardiac Surgery 
Georgia Heart Institute
Gainesville, GA

Michael Halkos, MD, MSc
Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery 
Emory University
Atlanta, GA

John Lazar, MD                
Chief, Thoracic Surgery
Ascension St. Thomas
Nashville, TN

Richard Lazzaro, MD
Chief of Thoracic Surgery, Southern Region 
RWJBarnabas Health
New Brunswick, NJ

Stephanie Mick, MD
Director, Minimally Invasive & Robotic Cardiac Surgery 
Weill Cornell Medicine
New York, NY

Nirav Patel, MD
Vice Chairman; Director of Robotic Cardiac Surgery
Lenox Hill Hospital
New York, NY

Rishindra Reddy, MD, MBA
Professor, Section of Thoracic Surgery
Department of Surgery
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI

Valerie Rusch, MD
Attending Thoracic Surgeon and Member
Vice Chair for Clinical Research
Department of Surgery
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York, NY

Inderpal Sarkaria, MD, MBA
Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery 
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, TX

Lana Schumacher, MD
Chief, Thoracic Surgery
Tufts Medicine
Boston, MA

Elliott Servais, MD
Section Chief, Thoracic Surgery
Lahey Hospital & Medical Center
Burlington, MA

Harmik Soukiasian, MD
Chief, Thoracic Surgery
Cedars-Sinai
Los Angeles, CA

Michael Zervos, MD
Chief, Clinical Thoracic Surgery
NYU Langone Health
New York, NY

Donna Kimmaliardjuk, MD

Marijan Koprivanac, MD

Tarek Malas, MD, MPH

Siva Raja, MD

Edward Soltesz, MD, MPH

Usman Ahmad, MD

Jose Navia, MD