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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 currently the President of the STSA (2019-2021), the President of the Heart Valve Society (2020-2022), and the President-Elect of the International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS). He is the Past-President of the South Atlantic Cardiovascular Society (2019-2021). He is the Treasuer-Elect (2020-2021) 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 the adult cardiac tract co-chair of the 100th and 101th Annual Meeting of the AATS. He is co-chair of the STS/ACC National Transcatheter Valve Therapies database and the chair of the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database Research sub-committee. Dr. Thourani has authored over 600 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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