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Vinod H. Thourani, MD

Marcus Chairman of Cardiovascular Surgery
Piedmont Heart Institute and Piedmont Healthcare
Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Vinod Thourani, MD is the Bernie Marcus Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery at Piedmont Healthcare and the Marcus Heart and Vascular Center, and the Director of the Structural Heart Center of Excellence of the Piedmont Heart Institute in Atlanta, Georgia. He is active in clinical care, research, and professional cardiac surgery and cardiology organizations. He specializes in valve surgery and is passionate about working with a multidisciplinary team allowing options for traditional, minimally invasive, and transcatheter surgical options. He is the Past-President of the STSA (2019-2021), Past-President of the Heart Valve Society (2020-2022), the Past-President of the International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS, 2022-2023) and the Past-President of the South Atlantic Cardiovascular Society (2019-2021). He is the Treasuer of the STS (2021-2025) and on the Board of Directors of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the Board of Trustees of ISMICS, and is on the Surgeons Council of the ACC. He is co-chair of the STS/ACC National Transcatheter Valve Therapies database and the past-chair of the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Research sub-committee. Dr. Thourani has authored over 700 peer-reviewed articles in a variety of prestigious medical journals and is currently the national co-principal investigator or on the steering committee for 10 valve trials including on the steering committee of the NIH Cardiothoracic Surgery Network (CTSN) Trials.

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