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Dimitrios Avgerinos
Dimitrios Vasileios Avgerinos, MD, PhD
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New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center
525 East 68th Str
Suite M404
Suite M404
New York 10065
United States
6466970057
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Role:
Surgeon - Cardiothoracic
Background
- Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York
- Certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery & the American Board of Surgery
- Instructor 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 Surgery
- Trans-catheter valve replacement
- Aortic & endovascular surgery
- Minimally Invasive Arrhythmia surgery (Afib ablation, Convergent)
- ECMO
- Ventricular Assist Devices (VADs)
- Valve-sparing ascending aneurysm repair
- Thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm repair
- Marfan syndrome
- Robotic cardiac surgery
Additional Educational Information
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Structural Heart Surgery and TAVR training (2019)
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Executive Leadership for Healthcare Professionals Certificate, Cornell University, College of Human Ecology, Ithaca NY (2018)
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Minimally Invasive Surgery training, Hoston TX (2017, 2018)
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Minimally Invasive Afib Ablation training, Boston MA (2015)
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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)
Content Published on CTSNet
Practice Areas
- Cardiac
- Vascular
- Minimally Invasive
- Coronary disease
- Electrophysiology/arrhythmia
- Endocarditis
- Extracorporeal circulation
- Heart failure
- Mechanical circulatory assistance
- Valve disease
- Vascular
- Great vessels
- Aorta
- Endovascular
- Professional Affairs