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Dimitrios Vasileios Avgerinos, MD, PhD
BACKGROUND
Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New YorkCertified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery & the American Board of SurgeryInstructor in Cardiothoracic Surgery, NYP-Cornell & Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (2010-2013)Instructor in Surgery, Albert Einstein College of Medicine (2005-2010) Research Assistant, Center of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Tufts-NEMC, Boston MA (2003-2005)
OTHER INTERESTS
Minimally invasive CT SurgeryTrans-catheter valve replacementAortic & endovascular surgeryMinimally Invasive Arrhythmia surgery (Afib ablation, Convergent)ECMOVentricular Assist Devices (VADs)Valve-sparing ascending aneurysm repairThoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repairMarfan syndromeRobotic cardiac surgery
RESEARCH
EDUCATION & TRAINING
Structural Heart Surgery and TAVR training (2019)
Executive Leadership for Healthcare Professionals Certificate, Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, Ithaca NY (2018)
Minimally Invasive Surgery training, Hoston TX (2017, 2018)
Minimally Invasive Afib Ablation training, Boston MA (2015)
Aortic Surgery advanced Fellowship, NYP-Cornell (2012-2013)
PhD, Department of Surgery, Athens University Medical School (2007-2014)
Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellow, NYP-Cornell / Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (2010-2012)
Scholar of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (2006-2012)
Albert Einstein College of Medicine General Surgery Residency (2005-2010)
Master’s of Science, Tufts University School of Engineering, Medford MA (2004-2005)
Research Assistant, Center of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Tufts-NEMC, Boston MA (2003-2005) Doctor of Medicine, Athens Medical School (M.D. 1996-2002)
