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Hartmuth Bittner
Hartmuth B Bittner, M.D., Ph.D., FACS
Franciscan Health 1701 South Creasy Lane Med Staff Office
Background
Diplomat, National Acadamy of Sports Sciences, Cologne, Germany (1982)
University of Heidelberg,Germany, Medical School
Cardiac Surgery, National Heart Center Berlin, Germany (1989-1991)
Duke University Medical Center General and Cardiothoracic Surgery Residency/Fellowship (1991-1999)
Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Minnesota (1999-2002)
Professor, Endowed Chair Cardithoracic Transplantation, Heart Center of the University of Leipzig, Germany (2002-12)
Director, Heart and Lung Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support, Chief of Advanced Cardiac Surgery, Florida Hospital Orlando (2012-2015)
President anf Founder, Gulf Coast Cardiothoracic Surgery Institute, Tampa, FL (2015-today)
Vice-Chief Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Tampa General Hospital, FL (2016-2018)
Director of Heart Failure and Cardiothoracic Surgery, Largo Medical Center, FL (10/2016-07/2018)
Other Interests
Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery
Advanced Heart Failure Surgery
Minimally Invasive Cardiac and Valve Surgery/Repair
High-risk Coronary Revascularization
Heart and Lung Transplantation and MCS
Practice Areas
- Cardiac
- Thoracic
- Vascular
- Minimally Invasive
- VATS
- Cardiac
- Coronary disease
- Electrophysiology/arrhythmia
- Endocarditis
- Extracorporeal circulation
- Heart failure
- Mechanical circulatory assistance
- Pericardium
- Valve disease
- Aortic valve disease
- Mitral valve disease
- Tricuspid valve disease
- Thoracic
- Diaphragm
- Lung
- Mediastinum
- Pleura
- Cancer
- Transplant
- Vascular
- Great vessels
- Aorta
- Endovascular
- Basic science