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Joseph Lamelas, Professor of Surgery, Chief of Cardiac Surgery

University of Miami Health System
Miami, FL, United States

Dr. Joseph Lamelas, is the Chief of Cardiac Surgery and Professor of Surgery at The University of Miami Health System, Miller School of Medicine in Miami, Florida. He is also the Program Director.
Dr. Lamelas has been in practice for more than 32 years and has completed more than 18,000 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. These instruments were part of a company he founded named “Miami Instruments”. He has trained more than 1000 physicians from around the world in minimally invasive cardiac surgery over the last 18 years.
He has developed techniques to facilitate minimally invasive approaches for repairing 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. He has an “all comers” approach to minimally invasive surgery, with the only exclusion criteria being the inability to cannulate the patient. He has a passion for mitral valve repair and has had a greater than 98% repair rate. He has lead the institution to be designated as a Mitral Valve Reference Center. He has developed a world recognized approach to minimally invasive cardiac surgery named “The Miami Method”. Furthermore, his operative outcomes, across all risk categories has been excellent, demonstrating amongst one of the highest survivals, lowest length of stay and lowest readmissions in the country.
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 has published, authoring and co-authoring hundreds of peer reviewed articles.

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