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  1. Mehmet Oz

    Dr. Mehmet Oz (born June 11, 1960) is an American cardiothoracic surgeon and author. Oz was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Turkish parents, and was educated at Tower Hill School in Wilmington, Delaware, received his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1982 and obtained a joint MD and MBA degree in 1986 from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and The Wharton School. Oz is Professor of Cardiac Surgery at Columbia University.

  2. Naresh Trehan

    Dr. Naresh Trehan, an internationally renowned surgeon and medical administrator, is founder, executive director and chief cardiovascular surgeon for Escorts Heart Institute and Research Center, one of the world's leading heart institutes. Dr. Trehan has served as personal surgeon to the President of India since 1991, has received numerous awards for distinguished service in medicine, and been president of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery.

  3. Norman Shumway

    Norman E. Shumway, M.D. (February 9 1923 - February 10 2006) was a pioneer of heart surgery at Stanford University. He was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. He was famous for being the first doctor to successfully carry out an open heart transplant operation in the USA in 1968, after Christiaan Barnard's 1967 operation in South Africa. The early years of the procedure were chequered with few patients surviving for long after it finished.

  4. Thomas Starzl

    Thomas Starzl (born March 11, 1926) is an American physician, researcher, and is an expert on organ transplants. He performed the first human liver transplants, and has often been referred to as "the father of modern transplantation."

  5. Jerry Leaf

    Jerry D. Leaf (April 4, 1941 - July 10, 1991) was Vice President of the cryonics organization Alcor Life Extension Foundation, and President of the cryonics service firm Cryovita, Inc., until his cryopreservation by Alcor following a fatal heart attack in 1991. He also worked as a cardiothoracic surgery researcher at the UCLA School of Medicine, co-authoring more than 20 papers from the laboratory of Dr. Gerald Buckberg.

  6. Adib Domingos Jatene

    Adib Domingos Jatene is a noted Brazilian physician, university professor, scientist and thoracic surgeon, one of the founders of the University of São Paulo Heart Institute and internationally respected as the inventor of the Jatene operation, an open heart surgery for revascularization of the myocardium. He was a Secretary of Health of São Paulo city and Minister of Health of Brazil. He is a member of the Brazilian Academy of Medicine.

  7. Aleksandr Bakulev

    Aleksandr Nikolayevich Bakulev was a Soviet surgeon. In 1953 to 1960 Bakulev led the Soviet Academy of Medical Sciences. In 1955 he suggested the foundation of the Thoracic Surgery Institute (now Bakulev Scientific Center of Cardiovascular Surgery) and then became its first head. In 1958 Bakulev was elected as a member of Soviet Academy of Sciences. Bakulev was awarded also the three Orders of Lenin, the Order of the Red Banner of Labour, …

  8. Paul Leopold Friedrich

    Paul Leopold Friedrich was a German surgeon who was born in the town of Roda (today Stadtroda). He practiced medicine in Leipzig (1896), Greifswald (1903), Marburg (1907) and Königsberg (1911). Two of his well-known students were Ferdinand Sauerbruch (1875-1951) and Martin Kirschner (1879-1942). Friedrich was skilled in all aspects of surgery, including pioneer work regarding thoracic surgery. He is remembered for his introduction of aseptic practices into surgery, …

  9. Peter Amollo Odhiambo

    Professor Peter Amollo (P. A.) Odhiambo (1942-), MBBS, MMed (Surg), FRCS (Edin), FCS (ECSA), FACC, is a Kenyan consultant thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon. He is a professor of thoracic and cardiovascular surgery at the University of Nairobi. He is a founder and former chairman of the Kenya Cardiac Society, and a former president of the Pan African Society of Cardiology (PASCAR). Odhiambo is the chairman of the Kenya National Tobacco Free Initiative.

  10. Bruce Reitz

    Dr. Reitz is a cum laude graduate of the Yale University School of Medicine and is board certified in surgery and thoracic surgery. He led the Stanford team that performed the world's first successful human heart-lung transplant in 1981. Currently, Dr. Reitz is on sabbatical. He's scheduled to return to Stanford Hospital in January, 2006.

  11. Dr Kenneth R McCurry MD
  12. Dr Delos M Cosgrove III MD

    Delos M. Cosgrove M.D., Cleveland, OH, is the chairman of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Doctor Cosgrove has performed over 18,000 surgical procedures and has become a world-renowned expert in the field of heart valve repair. Doctor Cosgrove has developed and filed 17 patents including the Cosgrove Mitral Valve Retractor, the Stentless Aortic Valve and the Cosgrove-Baxter Annuloplasty System for use in valve repairs.

  13. Dr Denton A Cooley MD
  14. Dr Raphael Bueno MD

    Dr. Bueno joined the Division in 1996. He is board certified in Surgery and Surgical Critical Care. Having graduated from Harvard University and Harvard Medical School, he completed his Surgery residency at BWH and Massachusetts General Hospital. His clinical interests include tracheal surgery, lung cancer, mesothelioma, esophageal cancer, benign esophageal disorders, thymomas and minimally invasive surgery.

  15. Dr Grant Van Siclen Parr MD
  16. Dr David Mark Jablons MD
  17. Dr Barry Charles Esrig MD

    Barry Esrig , MD Dr. Esrig is chief of the division of cardiothoracic surgery, and an associate professor of surgery at the New Jersey Medical School. In addition, he is an assistant clinical professor of surgery at Columbia University.

  18. Dr Floyd D Loop MD

    Floyd D. Loop , M.D. The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Floyd D. Loop was the CEO and chairman of the Board of Governors of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation from 1989-2004. Earlier, he chaired the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic from 1975 – 1989.

  19. Dr John Alex Elefteriades MD
  20. Dr Ronald Wilfred Busuttil MD

    Ronald W. Busuttil , M.D., Ph.D. Professor and Chief, Division of Liver and Pancreas Transplantation, Director, The Dumont-UCLA Transplant Center

  21. Dr David H Harpole Jr MD
  22. Dr Hartzell Vernon Schaff MD
  23. Dr Redmond Paul Burke MD
  24. Dr Edward Bronson Diethrich MD
  25. Dr Mark Burton Orringer MD
  26. Dr Wayne Stuart Gradman MD
  27. Dr Adam Naaman MD
  28. Dr Deepak Mohan Gangahar MD
  29. Dr Walter Julius Pories MD
  30. Dr Henning Arthur Gaissert MD
  31. Dr Richard J Shemin MD
  32. Dr Kirk Randy Kanter MD
  33. Dr Steven John Feldhaus MD

    Steven J. Feldhaus , M.D. Assistant Professor of Surgery Creighton University School of Medicine Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery Heart, Lung and Vascular Surgery

  34. Dr William G Plested III MD
  35. Dr Victor Anthony Ferraris MD
  36. Dr Thoralf Mauritz Sundt MD
  37. Dr Ingida Asfaw MD
  38. Dr Frederic Joseph Vagnini MD
  39. Dr James Scott Tweddell MD
  40. Dr Linda Jean Bogar MD

    Linda J. Bogar , MD Linda J. Bogar , MD, is a staff surgeon in the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Albert Einstein Medical Center. Dr. Bogar received her medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine. She completed her residency in surgery and a fellowship in cardiothoracic transplantation from Temple University Hospital. In addition, Dr. Bogar completed a residency in cardiothoracic surgery at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

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