Executive Director, BCVI; Vice President, NMG; Chief, Cardiac Surgery
Northwestern Medicine/Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Patrick M. McCarthy, M.D., is Executive Director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Medicine, Vice President of Northwestern Medical Group, the Heller-Sacks Professor of Surgery in the Feinberg School of Medicine and Chief of Cardiac Surgery. He has distinguished himself as a clinician, researcher, educator, and administrator. Dr. McCarthy trained at the Mayo Clinic, and at Stanford University for heart transplantation. He practiced at the Cleveland Clinic from 1990 until March 2004 and held the inaugural George and Linda Kaufman Chair of Surgery and was Surgical Director of the Kaufman Center for Heart Failure. Dr. McCarthy returned to his home in Chicago in 2004 when he was recruited to Northwestern. Dr. McCarthy has performed over 11,000 heart operations including approximately 7,000 heart valve surgeries. He has authored or co-authored more than 500 papers and 50 book chapters. He has been on the editorial board of eight medical journals and has been an officer in numerous professional societies. In 2008, he won the Socrates Award for teaching from the Thoracic Surgery Residents Association, and he is a member of AOA. Dr. McCarthy also has a joint appointment with the Department of Biomedical Engineering of Northwestern University due to his work educating young entrepreneurs (NUvention), and he has invented several medical products in clinical use.
The volume of cardiac surgery at Northwestern has more than quadrupled under Dr. McCarthy's leadership, and Northwestern is one of the largest heart valve programs in the nation. The Northwestern heart and heart surgery program rapidly rose in the U.S. News & World Report rankings from unranked to top 10 since 2016. Over 1600 physicians, nurses and support staff work in the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute.
Abbott: Surgical Primary Investigator, REPAIR-MR trial (unpaid)
AtriCure: Speaker's Bureau
Edwards Lifesciences: Royalties, Speaker's Bureau
Medtronic: Speaker's Bureau