Cardiovascular Surgery

• Surgery for Marfan syndrome and Loeys-Dietz syndrome
• Minimally invasive/robotic cardiac surgery
• Surgery for atrial fibrillation
• Surgery for heart failure
  • Ventricular restoration procedures
  • LVADs for permanent implantation
  • Robotic placement of ventricular lead
• Adult congenital procedures
• Valve-sparing aortic root procedures
• Neurological outcomes research
• Geriatric surgical research
• Outcomes research
• Endovascular thoracic aortic repair (collaboration with vascular surgery)

General Thoracic Surgery

• Minimally invasive/robotic surgery
• Geriatric surgery
• National clinical trials
• Translational genomics
• Biomarkers
• Outcomes Research
• Database
  • Lung cancer
  • Esophagectomy
• Surgery in the geriatric population