Surgical and Academic Director
Mount Sinai Health System
New York, New York, United States
As an interventional surgeon, Dr. Tang has performed >4000 structural heart interventions (including >600 mitral and tricuspid procedures) and is a world expert in the lifetime management after TAVR (redo TAVR and TAVR explant), transcatheter mitral and tricuspid interventions, and 3D intracardiac echo. Dr. Tang has pioneered several techniques in TAVR (cusp overlap, commissural alignment) that have become the standard practice. He serves on committees in the Heart Valve Collaboratory, PCR, and several clinical trials, and is the Principal Investigator in the global EXPLANT-TAVR, EXPLANTORREDO-TAVR, and CUTTING-EDGE registries. Dr. Tang is the Editor-in-Chief for JACC Case Reports, a 4-time recipient of the Simon Dack Award for JACC, a FRCSC, FACC and the first surgeon to be a FSCAI, as well as a member of the AATS, STS and AHA. He has published >200 articles, lectured and trained many heart teams around the world, owns a YouTube channel and has >19,000 followers on Twitter/X and Linkedin. Dr. Tang obtained his BA from Harvard University and MD from University of Toronto. Dr. Tang completed his cardiac surgery residency training at the University of Toronto and also a Masters of Science there and an MBA at Harvard.
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Lessons learned: How Can Surgeons be Actively Engaged in Transcatheter Tricuspid Procedures?
Saturday, January 25, 2025
11:09am – 11:17am PT