Dr. Vinay Badhwar, MD, FACS, FACC, is the Executive Chair at the WVU Heart & Vascular Institute.  In addition to his robotic mitral valve repair specialty, Dr. Badhwar is widely known for his research and clinical experience with atrial fibrillation.  In fact, Dr. Badhwar was the lead author on the 2017 Society of Thoracic Surgeons Guidelines which recommends surgical ablation during concomitant procedures.

Learn more about why Dr. Badhwar uses the Cox-Maze IV procedure for patients who present with heart failure symptoms associated with atrial fibrillation…

Dr. Steven Bolling, Director of the Mitral Valve Program at Michigan Medicine, is widely known for his specialties in mitral valve repair.  However, Dr. Bolling has been performing surgical ablation therapy, including the Maze procedure, during concomitant cases since the 1980s.

The key highlights from Dr. Bolling’s video include…

Dr. Luis Castro is a leading mitral valve repair surgeon at Sequoia Hospital in Redwood City, California, where he has been the Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery since 2007.

During the last 6 years, Dr. Castro has zero percent 30-day mortality for isolated mitral valve repair and replacement procedures. As a result of his outcomes and unique approach to patient care, Dr. Castro has received…

During his extraordinary career, Dr. Patrick McCarthy has performed over 10,000 cardiac procedures of which 5,000 operations involved heart valve therapies.

As the Executive Director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, which is the #7 ranked cardiology and heart surgery program according to U.S. News & World Reports, Dr. McCarthy has built a nationally recognized health care destination for patients requiring highly specialized…