Professor and Chief of Cardiovascular Surgery
Emory University Hospital Midtown
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Dr John D. Puskas was educated at Princeton University and Harvard Medical School. He completed the General Surgery Residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Cardiothoracic Fellowship at Emory University, where he was retained on faculty from 1996-2014. He served as Chief of Cariothoracic Surgery at Emory MIdtown Hospital and founded the Cardiothoracic Clinical Research Unit, leading numerous NIH and Industry sponsored clinical trials including multiple FDA IDE studies. He was recruited to be Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount SInai, New York, in 2014 and Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Mount Sinai Morningside Hospital. Dr Puskas is one of the world's authorities on surgical coronary revascularization, with particular emphasis on off-pump CABG, multi- and all-arterial OPCAB and robotic coronary bypass surgery. He has published more than 350 peer reviewed manuscripts in the field of Adult Cardiac Surgery and has delivered more than 350 invited lectures nationally and internationally. Dr Puskas is Past President of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery and former Program Chairman and Council Member of the American Association of Thoracic Surgery. Dr Puskas co-founded the International Coronary Congress (ICC) in 2015 and the International Society for Coronary Artery Surgery (ISCAS) in 2021. In 2021 he co-edited the Oxford University Press text, entitled "State of the Art Surgical Coronary Revascularization". In April 2024 Dr Puskas was recruited back to Emory University, where he serves as the Director of the Carlyle Fraser Heart Center at Emory University, Professor and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Emory University Hospital Midtown.
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