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Dimitrios Avgerinos

Dimitrios Vasileios Avgerinos, MD, PhD

New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center
525 East 68th Str
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

  • 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) 

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