Dr. David Adams, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
At a glance
Has 20+ years of experience
Graduated from Duke University, Doctor of Medicine
Works at Mount Sinai FPA Cardiovascular Department
Speaks English
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Areas of expertise
This doctor's experience enhances their expertise in similar cases. Below are the conditions or surgeries they treat most frequently.
Circulation problems except heart attack
Heart valve disorders
Circulation problems except heart attack
Heart valve disorders
More about Dr. David Adams, MD
David H. Adams, MD, is the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the Cardiac Surgeon-in-Chief of the Mount Sinai Health System. He is also President of the Mitral Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting best practice standards in mitral valve disease and supporting medical missions that advance the repair skills of surgeons in developing countries.
Dr. Adams is a recognized leader in the field of heart valve surgery and mitral valve reconstruction. In April 2018, he became the 99th President of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery, the world's oldest and most prestigious society dedicated to cardiothoracic surgery.
As the Program Director of The Mount Sinai Hospital's Mitral Valve Repair Center, he directs one of the largest programs in the United States. Dr. Adams and his team perform over 400 mitral valve operations per year while setting national benchmarks for clinical outcomes.
During his tenure at Mount Sinai, Dr. Adams co-authored the internationally acclaimed and widest selling valve textbook in history, Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery, with Professor Alain Carpentier,and also co-edited the benchmark reference textbook Cardiac Surgery in the Adult. He is the author of over 225 publications and is also an Associate Editor for Surgery for the Journal of the American College of Cardiologyand Associate Editor for Hurst’s the Heart, 14th edition. He has served on the Editorial Boards of several medical journals, including the Annals of Thoracic Surgery and Cardiology, and served as the co-Editor of Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
He is the co-inventor of multiple mitral valve and tricuspid valve repair rings, including the Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix Annuloplasty Ring, the Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring, is the inventor of the Medtronic Tri-Ad Adams Tricuspid Annuloplasty Ring, and holds three patents. He also currently serves as the National Co-Principal Investigator of multiple FDA pivotal randomized trials in the field of minimally invasive valve intervention, including the Medtronic CoreValve System for Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation, the Medtronic Intrepid System for Transcatheter Mitral Valve Replacement, and the NeoChord System for Surgical Mitral Valve Repair without cardiopulminary bypass.
Dr. Adams is an acclaimed speaker and educator. 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. He has given over 350 invited lectures around the world and he and his team have developed the world’s largest video library of techniques in valve reconstruction. He is also dedicated to teaching surgery throughout the world, and he has performed surgery on over 200 patients in China, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Poland, Thailand, and Viet Nam.
Education & experience
Education
Medical School - Duke University, Doctor of Medicine
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Residency in Surgery
Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Fellowship in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Harvard Medical School, Fellowship in Pathology
Practice
Mount Sinai FPA Cardiovascular Department
Certifications
American Board of Thoracic Surgery
Awards and publications
Castle Connolly Top Doctor
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),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)
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, 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 - 2013) (New York Magazine - 2013)
Background
Languages spoken
English
Gender
Male
NPI number
#1477506657
David Adams does not participate in Zocdoc to offer online booking at this time
What practice does Dr. David Adams work with?
Dr. David Adams works with Mount Sinai FPA Cardiovascular Department.
Which board certifications does Dr. David Adams have?
Dr. David Adams is certified by American Board of Thoracic Surgery.
What are common reasons for patients to see Dr. David Adams?
Dr. David Adams frequently sees patients for Atrial Fibrillation, Bypass Surgery Consultation - CABG, Bypass Surgery Follow Up - CABG, Cardiothoracic Surgery Consultation, and Thoracic Surgery . You can see other visit reasons for Dr. David Adams on their profile.
What languages does Dr. David Adams speak?
Dr. David Adams speaks English.