Subspecialty	Cardiothoracic Surgery
Clinical Interests	Mitral Valve Repair
	Complex Reoperative Valve Surgery
	Aortic Valve Surgery
Languages	English
Gender	Male
E-mail	david.adams@mountsinai.org
Education and Training	MD, Duke University
	Residency, Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital
	Residency, Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital
	Fellowship, Pathology, Harvard Medical School
	Fellowship, Cardiothoracic Surg, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Awards	2009 Award for Achievement in Cardiovascular Science and Medicine American Heart Association
	2006 Top 100 Minimally Invasive Surgeons New York Magazine
	2002 Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Endowed Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery Mount Sinai School of Medicine
	2002 - 2009 Best Doctors New York Magazine
	2001 Best Oral Presentation, Internation Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
	2000 Honorary Professor of Surgery Capital University of Medical Sciences Beijing
	1992 Alton Ochsner Research Scholar The American Association of Thoracic Surgergy
	1987 National Research Service Award National Institute of Health
	1986 Paul Dudley White Research Fellowship American Heart Association
	1981 International College of Surgeons Scholarship
	1981 Alpha Omega Alpha

Dr. David H. Adams is the Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Dr. Adams is a world renowned leader in the field of heart valve surgery and mitral valve reconstruction. As Program Director of the Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center (http://www.mitralvalverepair.org), he has set national benchmarks with 99% repair rates and less than 1% mortality rates, while running one of the largest valve repair programs in the United States.  Dr. Adams is the co-inventor of 2 mitral valve annuloplasty repair rings (the Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring and the Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix Ring), and is a senior consultant with royalty agreements with Edwards Lifesciences, the largest heart valve company in the world. He is also a co-author with Professor Alain Carpentier of the upcoming textbook Carpentier's Valve Reconstruction. He is also the Co-Director of the annual American College of Cardiology/American Association for Thoracic Surgery Heart Valve Disease Summit.

Dr. Adams is a much sought after speaker both nationally and internationally, and has developed at Mount Sinai one of the world's largest video libraries of techniques in valve reconstruction. He is the author of over 200 publications, holds three patents, and is recognized as a leading surgeon scientist and medical expert, serving on the Editorial Boards of several medical journals, including the Annals of Thoracic Surgery and Heart. He has also served in an advisory capacity to essentially all industry leaders in cardiovascular surgery.  He recently was appointed as the national Co-Principal Investigator of the upcoming Medtronic CoreValve Percutaneous Aortic Valve Replacement FDA Pivotal Trial.

Dr. Adams' clinical interests include all aspects of heart valve surgery, with a special emphasis on mitral valve reconstruction. His major research interests include the investigation of ischemic mitral regurgitation, outcomes related to mitral valve repair, and novel mitral valve repair strategies. Past research honors include the Alton Ochsner Research Scholarship from the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and the Paul Dudley White Research Fellowship from the American Heart Association. He has also received honorary Professorships from Capital University in Beijing and Keio University in Tokyo. In June he will receive the 2009 Achievement in Cardiovascular Science and Medicine Award from the American Heart Association.

He received his undergraduate and medical education at Duke University and served his internship and residency in general and cardiothoracic surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital and at Harvard Medical School in Boston. Dr. Adams followed that with a fellowship in the Cardiothoracic Unit at Harefield Hospital in London under Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub. In addition, he completed a two-year research fellowship under Professor Morris Karnovsky in the Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. At Brigham and Women's Hospital/Boston Children's Hospital he was Associate Director of the Cardiothoracic Residency Program, Co-director of the Heart Transplantation Program, and Director of the Brigham Primate Laboratory. He has been Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Mount Sinai Medical Center since 2002.

Curriculum Vitae

In the News

Dr. Adams discusses mitral-valve repair in The Daily News feature The Daily Check Up.
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Education and Training	MD, Duke University
	Residency, Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital
	Residency, Surgery, Brigham and Women's Hospital
	Fellowship, Pathology, Harvard Medical School
	Fellowship, Cardiothoracic Surg, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Subspecialty	Cardiothoracic Surgery
Clinical Interests	Mitral Valve Repair
	Complex Reoperative Valve Surgery
	Aortic Valve Surgery
Languages	English

• Outcomes of Mitral Valve Repair
• Differentiation of Valve Disease
• Novel Valve Repair Rings
• Investigation of Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation
  

Adams DH, Anyanwu AC, Chikwe J, Filsoufi F. The Year in Cardiovascular Surgery. J Am Coll Cardiol 2009 June; 53(25): 2389-2403.

Adams DH, Anyanwu AC. Seeking a higher standard for degenerative mitral valve repair: begin with etiology. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008 Sep; 136(3): 551-556.

Adams DH, Anyanwu AC, Sugeng L, Lang RM. Degenerative mitral valve regurgitation: surgical echocardiography. Curr Cardiol Rep 2008 May; 10(3): 226-232.

Akins CW, Miller DC, Turina MI, Kouchoukos NT, Blackstone EH, Grunkemeier GL, Takkenberg JJ, David TE, Butchart EG, Adams DH, Shahian DM, Hagl S, Mayer JE, Lytle BW, Society of Thoracic Surgeons , American Association for Thoracic Surgery , European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons . Guidelines for reporting mortality and morbidity after cardiac valve interventions. Ann Thorac Surg 2008 Apr; 85(4): 1490-1495.

Adams DH, Anyanwu AC. The cardiologist's role in increasing the rate of mitral valve repair in degenerative disease. Curr Opin Cardiol 2008 Mar; 23: 105-110.

Anyanwu AC, Filsoufi F, Salzberg SP, Bronster DJ, Adams DH. Epidemiology of stroke after cardiac surgery in the current era. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007 Nov; 134(5): 1121-1127.

Anyanwu AC, Adams DH. Etiologic classification of degenerative mitral valve disease: Barlow's disease [review]. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007 Summer; 19(2): 90-96.

Anyanwu AC, Adams DH. The intraoperative . J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007 June; 133(6): 1635-1636.

Adams DH, Anyanwu AC, Rahmanian PB, Abascal V, Salzberg SP, Filsoufi F. Large annuloplasty rings facilitate mitral valve repair in Barlow's disease. Ann Thorac Surg 2006 Dec; 82(6): 2096-2100.

Filsoufi F, Rahmanian PB, Anyanwu A, Adams DH. Physiologic basis for the surgical treatment of ischemic mitral regurgitation [review]. Am Heart Hosp J 2006 Fall; 4(4): 261-268.

Adams DH, Anyanwu AC, Rahmanian PB, Filsoufi F. Current concepts in mitral valve repair for degenerative disease. Heart Fail Rev 2006 Sep ; 11(3): 241 -257.

Daimon M, Fukuda S, Adams DH, McCarthy PM, Gillinov AM, Carpentier A, Filsoufi F, Abascal VM, Rigolin VH, Salzberg S, Huskin A, Langenfeld M, Shiota T. Mitral valve repair with Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix annuloplasty ring for ischemic mitral regurgitation: early echocardiographic results from a multi-center study. Circulation 2006 Jul 4; 114(1 Suppl): I588-593.

Adams DH, Anyanwu A. Pitfalls and limitations in measuring and interpreting the outcomes of mitral valve repair. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006 Mar; 131(3): 523-529.

Salzberg SP, Filsoufi F, Anyanwu A, von Harbou K, Gass A, Pinney SP, Carpentier A, Adams DH. High-risk mitral valve surgery: perioperative hemodynamic optimization with. Ann Thorac Surg 2005 Aug; 80(2): 502-506.

Vassiliades TA Jr, Block PC, Cohn LH, Adams DH, Borer JS, Feldman T, Holmes DR, Laskey WK, Lytle BW, Mack MJ, Williams DO, Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) , American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) , Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) , American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) , American Heart Association (AHA) . The clinical development of percutaneous heart valve technology: a position statement of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS), and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI). Ann Thorac Surg 2005 May; 79(5): 1812-1818.

Filsoufi F, Salzberg SP, Adams DH. Current management of ischemic mitral regurgitation. Mt Sinai J Med 2005 Mar; 72(2): 105-115.

Adams DH, Filsoufi F. Another chapter in an enlarging book: repair degenerative mitral valves. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 June; 125(6): 1197-1199.