Professor of Surgery
Columbia University Medical Center
New York, New York, United States
Professor of Surgery and Director of the Cardiovascular Institute and Director of the Surgical Heart Valve Program at New York Presbyterian-Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Raised and received his medical education in Iceland. Trained in General Surgery at Yale New Haven Hospital and Cardiothoracic Surgery at University of Pennsylvania, 1998-2007. Faculty at Yale from 2007 until 2013 as Director of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery. Lived in Iceland from 2013-2016 and worked as Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland. Returned to the US in 2016 and appointed as Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery, Yale from 2017 to 2023 when he joined NYP/CUIMS.
He maintains a very busy clinical practice which focuses on minimally invasive cardiac surgery and complex valve surgery, including robotic mitral valve repair and complex reoperative surgery. He has contributed to over 300 peer-reviewed publication and given over 100 invited lectures and professorships. Research interest includes clinical outcome research focusing on valve diseases and endocarditis as well as translational research projects focusing on pathogenesis of mitral valve prolapse
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Hands-On Course: Mitral Valve Repair
Sunday, January 26, 2025
7:00am – 8:30am PT