Cardiac Surgeon
UC Davis Health
UC Davis Health
Sacramento, California, United States
Dr. Bob Kiaii is a Professor in the Department of Surgery, the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of California Davis Medical Center in Sacramento, California, USA.
Dr. Kiaii is one of the most experienced minimally invasive robotic cardiac surgeons. He has performed ground-breaking minimally invasive and robotic-assisted cardiac procedures including the first North American simultaneous hybrid coronary artery revascularization on September 1, 2004. He also performed the first Canadian totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass grafting on the beating heart using the da Vinci® Robotic System, the first Canadian robotic-assisted multi-vessel coronary artery bypass, and the world’s first robotic-assisted left atrial appendage ligation for atrial fibrillation. In 2011, Dr. Kiaii performed the world’s first aortic valve bypass using the Correx apical conduit and the world’s first repair of a perforation of the right atrium using the da Vinci® Robotic System. In 2018, he performed the world’s first Robotic-assisted aortic valve replacement for aortic valve stenosis.
In 2020 he built a dedicated minimally invasive and robotic cardiac surgery team at UC Davis and the team successfully performed the first robotic-assisted mitral valve repair in Northern California. After less than one year the team was recognized by the American association for Thoracic Surgery Foundation’s Cardiac Surgical Robotics Program to become a host center for training and mentorship of the team of the awarded fellows of the program in robotic cardiac surgery.
He has served on numerous scientific advisory boards and is a regular reviewer of grant submissions and journal articles. He is one of the Associated Editors of the Journal Innovations for the International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery. His bibliography includes 10 book chapters, 203 peer-reviewed papers, 140 abstracts, and more than 178 guest lectures.
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