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Joseph Lamelas, MD

Chief of Cardiac Surgery
University of Miami Health System
Miami, Florida, United States

Dr. Joseph Lamelas, an internationally recognized surgeon in minimally invasive heart surgery, is the Chief of Cardiac Surgery and Professor of Surgery at The University of Miami Health System, Miller School of Medicine in Miami, Florida.
Dr. Lamelas has been in practice for more than 30 years and has completed more than 17,000 cardiac surgical operations in his career. Dr Lamelas has played a significant role in advancing the field of minimally invasive cardiac surgery, as well as developing facilitating instruments. He has trained more than 1000 physicians from around the world in this approach over the last 17 years.
While he practices all facets of cardiac surgery, his main focus over the past 17 years has been minimally invasive cardiac surgery. Dr. Lamelas has developed techniques to facilitate minimally invasive approaches for repairing simple congenital cardiac defects, removal of cardiac tumors, aortic valve surgery, mitral valve surgery, double and triple valve surgery, as well as replacing the ascending aorta without splitting the sternum.
Dr. Lamelas is board certified in thoracic surgery and a member of the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and is also a fellow in the American Board of Surgery. He has lectured both nationally and internationally and his work in the field of minimally invasive valve surgery has been extensively published.

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