Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
Piedmont Heart Institute
Piedmont Heart Institute
atlanta, Georgia, United States
Dr. Vinod Thourani is the Bernie Marcus Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Piedmont Healthcare and the Marcus Heart and Vascular and Valve Center of the Piedmont Heart Institute (PHI) in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also the Surgical Director of the PHI Structural Center of Excellence.
He is currently the President of the International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS, 2022-2023) and the Past-President of the Heart Valve Society (2020-2022), Past-President of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association (2019-2021), and Past-President of the South Atlantic Cardiovascular Society (2019-2021). He serves on the Board of Directors and the Executive committee of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) and is the Treasurer (2022-2025). He is on the Board of Trustees and Executive Committee of ISMICS, Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Heart Valve Society, Heart Valve Voice, and is on the Surgeons Council of the American College of Cardiology. He is co-chair of the STS/ACC National Transcatheter Valve Therapies (TVT) database and the chair of the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Research sub-committee. He is a Senior Associate Editor for the Annals of Thoracic Surgery and the editorial board of Innovations, Journal of Cardiac Surgery, and the Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. Dr. Thourani has authored over 677 peer-reviewed articles and is Principal Investigator or on the steering committee for 10 valve trials in the U.S. and the NIHLBI Cardiothoracic Surgery Network. He specializes in adult cardiac surgery and has a busy clinical schedule with over 450 cardiac cases per year. Specifically, he is passionate about working with a multidisciplinary team allowing options for traditional, minimally invasive, and transcatheter surgical options.
Friday, October 28, 2022
9:47 AM – 10:02 AM EDT