Professor of Surgery
Northwestern University
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Dr. Cox is best known for his work in the field of cardiac arrhythmia surgery and the development of the Cox-Maze Procedure for the treatment of atrial fibrillation. He spent the majority of his career as the first Evarts A. Graham Professor of Surgery, Vice-Chairman of the Department of Surgery, and Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine and Barnes Hospital in St. Louis, Missouri. He has trained many prominent surgeons including 34 Residents or Clinical Fellows who became full Professors of Surgery, 30 of whom became Chiefs of Cardiac and/or Thoracic Surgery. Dr. Cox has served as the Guest Lecturer, Visiting Professor or Guest Surgeon over 600 times and in some 30 countries. He has published over 450 peer-reviewed scientific articles and holds some 35 patents on medical devices.
Dr. Cox was the 81st President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS), Chairman of the Residency Review Committee for Thoracic Surgery, a Director of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, a member of the Surgical Study Section at the National Institutes of Health, a Founding Member of the Board of Directors of CTSNet, Editor-in-Chief of two AATS journals, and a member of the Editorial Board of over 20 scientific journals, He is the only surgeon ever to receive the Distinguished Scientist Awards from the AATS, the STS, and the HRS, and is the only American cardiac surgeon in the Russian Academy of Science. In 2000, Dr. Cox was honored by the University of Paris as the youngest of only 30 “Pioneers in Cardiothoracic Surgery” for the first 50 years of the specialty (1950-2000). In 2020, Dr. Cox was only the third cardiac surgeon to ever receive the Jacobson Innovation Award from the 82,000-member American College of Surgeons, their highest scientific honor.
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Atrial Fibrillation and Cardiac Surgery: What the APP Should Know About Maze and LAA Closure
Thursday, January 23, 2025
2:26pm – 2:36pm PT