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David H. Adams

  • PROFESSOR & CHAIR Cardiothoracic Surgery
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Specialty

Certifications

  • Thoracic Surgery

Education

  • MD, Duke University

  • Residency, Surgery
    Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

  • Residency, Surgery
    Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

  • Fellowship, Pathology
    Harvard Medical School

  • Fellowship, Cardiothoracic Surg
    Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Biography

    Dr. Adams is a leader in the field of heart valve surgery and mitral valve reconstruction. As the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Program Director of The Mount Sinai Hospital's Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center, he has set national benchmarks with > 99% degenerative mitral valve repair rates, while running one of the largest programs in the United States.

    He is the co-inventor of 2 mitral valve annuloplasty repair rings (the Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix Annuloplasty Ring and the Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring), and is also the inventor of the Medtronic Tri-Ad Adams Tricuspid Annuloplasty Ring. He is a co-director of the annual American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Heart Valve Summit, and the Director of the biennial AATS Mitral Conclave, the largest international meeting in the world focused on mitral valve disease.

    Dr. Adams is an acclaimed speaker and educator. He has given over 300 invited lectures around the world and he and his team have developed one of the world’s largest video libraries of techniques in valve reconstruction. Dr. Adams is also dedicated to teaching surgery throughout the world, and he has performed surgery on patients in China, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Japan, Poland, Thailand, and Viet Nam. He is the President of the Mitral Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting best practice standards in mitral valve disease.

    He is a co-author, with Professor Alain Carpentier, of the internationally acclaimed textbook Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery. He is the author of over 200 publications, holds three patents, and has served on the Editorial Boards of several medical journals, including the Annals of Thoracic Surgery and Cardiology. He served as the co-Editor of Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He currently is a Councilor of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery and serves as the Education Councilor on the AATS Education Committee. He is an Associate Editor for the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and Associate Editor for Hurst’s the Heart, 14th edition. He is also the National Co-Principal Investigator of the FDA United States pivotal trial of the Medtronic CoreValve Transcatheter Aortic Valve replacement device.

    Dr. Adams’ major research interests include outcomes related to mitral valve repair, strategies in complex mitral valve repair, and transcatheter valve replacement. 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. He received his undergraduate and medical education at Duke University and completed his internship and residency in general and cardiothoracic surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. In addition, he completed a two-year research fellowship under Professor Morris Karnovsky in the Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School and an advanced cardiac surgical fellowship under Sir Magdi Yacoub in London. He later served at Brigham and Women's Hospital as the Associate Chief of Cardiac Surgery. He has been Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai since 2002.

    Curriculum Vitae

    In the News
    Dr. Adams discusses mitral-valve repair in The Daily News feature The Daily Check Up.
    View the PDF.

Awards

  • 2013 -
    Best Doctors (2002 - 2013)
    New York Magazine

  • 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

  • 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 -
    Alpha Omega Alpha

  • 1981 -
    International College of Surgeons Scholarship

Research

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

Publications

Adams DH, Rosenhek R, Faulk V. Degenerative mitral valve regurgitation: best practice revolution. European Heart Journal 2010 August; 31(16): 1958-1966.

Adams DH, Anyanwu AC. Asymptomatic mitral regurgitation: does surgery save lives?. Nature Reviews in Cardiology 2009 May; 6(5): 330-332.

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.

Industry Relationships

Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device and biotechnology companies to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their relationships with such companies.

Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Adams during 2012 and/or 2013. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.

Other Activities: Examples include, but are not limited to, committee participation, data safety monitoring board (DSMB) membership.

  • Edwards Lifesciences; Medtronic, Inc.

Royalty Payments:

  • Edwards Lifesciences; Medtronic, Inc.

Mount Sinai's faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website at http://icahn.mssm.edu/about-us/services-and-resources/faculty-resources/handbooks-and-policies/faculty-handbook. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.

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