Dr. David H. Adams - MD

1190 Fifth Avenue
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10029

Practice Name:

Mount Sinai Faculty Practice Associates

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Specialties:

Surgeon

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Professional Statement:

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 recognized leader in the field of heart valve surgery and mitral valve reconstruction. As Program Director of the Mount Sinai Mitral Valve Repair Center, he has set national benchmarks with >99% degenerative mitral valve repair rates, while running one of the largest valve repair programs in the United States. He is the co-inventor of 2 mitral valve annuloplasty repair rings (the Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix Ring and the Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring), and is a senior consultant with royalty agreements with Edwards Lifesciences. He is also the inventor of the Tri-Ad Tricuspid Annuloplasty ring with a royalty agreement with Medtronic. He is a co-author with Professor Alain Carpentier of the benchmark textbook in mitral valve surgery Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery. He is co-director of the annual American College of Cardiology/American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Heart Valve Disease Summit, and the Director of the biennial AATS Mitral Conclave.

Dr. Adams is a much sought after speaker both nationally and internationally, and has developed 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 Cardiology. He is currently the co-Editor of Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He is also the National Co-Principal Investigator of the upcoming FDA pivotal trial of the Medtronic-CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve replacement device.

Dr. Adams? clinical interests include all aspects of heart valve surgery, with a special emphasis on mitral valve reconstruction. His major research interests include outcomes related to mitral valve repair, novel mitral valve repair strategies, 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 at Harvard Medical School. 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. He later served at Brigham and Women's Hospital as the Associate Chief of Cardiac Surgery and Director of the Brigham Primate Xeno-transplant 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:

Medical School - Duke University (Degree: MD)
Brigham and Women's Hospital (Residency - Surgery)
Brigham and Women's Hospital (Fellowship - Cardiothoracic Surg)
Harvard Medical School (Fellowship - Pathology)

Languages Spoken:

English

Board Certifications:

American Board of Thoracic Surgery

Awards and Publications:

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. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18303521)
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. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17976438)
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. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17870001)
Anyanwu AC, Adams DH. The intraoperative . J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007 June; 133(6): 1635-1636. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17532968)
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. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17126117)
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. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17086006)
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. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17041764)
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. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16820643)
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. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16515900)
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. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16039193)
Adams DH, Anyanwu AC, Sugeng L, Lang RM. Degenerative mitral valve regurgitation: surgical echocardiography. Curr Cardiol Rep 2008 May; 10(3): 226-232. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18489867)
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. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18355567)
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. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15770340)
Adams DH, Filsoufi F. Another chapter in an enlarging book: repair degenerative mitral valves. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 June; 125(6): 1197-1199. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12830033)
Adams DH, Anyanwu AC, Chikwe J, Filsoufi F. The Year in Cardiovascular Surgery. J Am Coll Cardiol 2009 June; 53(25): 2389-2403. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19539151)
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. (http://www.jtcvsonline.org/article/PIIS0022522307019447/fulltext)
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.
International College of Surgeons Scholarship
Alpha Omega Alpha
Award for Achievement in Cardiovascular Science and Medicine (American Heart Association - 2009)
Paul Dudley White Research Fellowship (American Heart Association - 1986)
National Research Service Award (National Institute of Health - 1987)
Alton Ochsner Research Scholar (The American Association of Thoracic Surgergy - 1992)
Honorary Professor of Surgery (Capital University of Medical Sciences Beijing - 2000)
Best Oral Presentation, Internation Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Endowed Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery (Mount Sinai School of Medicine - 2002)
Top 100 Minimally Invasive Surgeons (New York Magazine - 2006)
Best Doctors (2002 - 2010) (New York Magazine - 2010)

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