Robotic Heart Surgery

DEDICATION: To all my patients who have contributed to this educational site for the betterment of science and education of the public

Current Position:
Director Robotics and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Surgical Director for Transcatheter Heart Valve Program
Sarasota Memorial Hospital, Sarasota, Fl

Expertise:

Robotic Assisted Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery (Performed Florida State's first Totally Endoscopic CABG; currently the only one performing Robotic assisted multivessel CABG in Florida)
Robotic/ Minimally Invasive Mitral Valve Repair and MAZE
Minimally Invasive Aortic Valve Replacement
Off Pump CABG
Performed around 1500 open heart procedures with more than 200 Robotic and Minimally Invasive Cases

Expert Consultant:

Served as technical expert Consultant for the following lead medical
companies: Edwards Lifesciences, Medtronic, Sorin

Training:

1. Robotics and Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Mentor: Johannes Bonnatti (World's Leading Robotic Surgeon)
University of Maryland
2. Adult Cardiac Surgery
Mentor: Tomas Salerno (Pioneer Off Pump CABG Surgeon)
University of Miami School of Medicine
3. Transplantation Immunology Research Fellowship
as Leon Strauss Transplantation Research Fellow
Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis
Lead murine model transplantation and autoimmune papers utilizing
the antibody CTLA4Ig.