John D. Puskas is an American researcher, author, inventor and cardiovascular surgeon. As of 2022, he is Professor,

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Surgery,

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at Mount Sinai, and Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at

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and

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. He holds 11 U.S. patents and co-founded the International Coronary Congress and the International Society for Coronary Artery Surgery. He is credited by

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with 330 publications and 15,234 citations and as of 2022

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of 62. Puskas is known for advancing

coronary artery bypass Coronary artery bypass surgery, also known as coronary artery bypass graft (CABG, pronounced "cabbage") is a surgical procedure to treat coronary artery disease (CAD), the buildup of plaques in the arteries of the heart. It can relieve chest p ...

(

CABG Coronary artery bypass surgery, also known as coronary artery bypass graft (CABG, pronounced "cabbage") is a surgical procedure to treat coronary artery disease (CAD), the buildup of plaques in the arteries of the heart. It can relieve Angina pe ...

) surgery by refining surgical techniques for all-arterial, off-pump CABG and inventing finer instruments to be used for advanced coronary bypass surgical procedures. He is credited with performing the first totally thoracoscopic bilateral pulmonary vein isolation procedure. He is the co-editor of ''State of the Art Surgical Coronary

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'', the first textbook solely devoted to coronary artery surgery. In 2021, Puskas ran the

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with his patient who, in 2018, suffered cardiac arrest and was clinically dead for five minutes, but recovered after all-arterial CABG. Their trainer, John Garlepp was another CABG patient of Puskas.

Career

Life and education

Puskas received his MD at

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in 1986 and in 1991, a Master of Science in Surgical Science (

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) at the

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. Post-graduate training included a general surgery internship and residency, department of surgery,

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; fellowship in

cardiothoracic surgery Cardiothoracic surgery is the field of medicine involved in surgical treatment of organs inside the thoracic cavity — generally treatment of conditions of the heart ( heart disease), lungs (lung disease), and other pleural or mediastinal st ...

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, a

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research fellowship, division of

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surgery,

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; and an advanced fellowship in

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l surgery,

, Division of General

Thoracic Surgery Cardiothoracic surgery is the field of medicine involved in surgical treatment of organs inside the thoracic cavity — generally treatment of conditions of the heart (heart disease), lungs (lung disease), and other pleural or mediastinal struc ...

Research

Puskas research concentrations include arterial bypass grafting, robotic and hybrid coronary bypass grafting, novel designs and materials for artificial heart valves, mitral and aortic valve repair and replacement, surgical and medical treatments for people with atrial fibrillation and surgical instruments for adult cardiac surgery. He founded the

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Cardiothoracic Cardiothoracic surgery is the field of medicine involved in surgical treatment of organs inside the thoracic cavity — generally treatment of conditions of the heart (heart disease), lungs (lung disease), and other pleural or mediastinal struct ...

Clinical Research Unit in 2005 and was a founding investigator in the creation of the

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Cardiothoracic Surgery Trials Network in 2007; he has served on the steering committee of that NIH Network since that time. As of 2022, he has served as the

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(PI) of five multi-center

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investigatory drug/device exemption trials in cardiovascular surgery. At

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, he founded and directs the Cardiovascular Clinical Research Unit at Mount Sinai Morningside and Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospitals to create a multidisciplinary collaborative clinical research infrastructure allowing clinical cardiologists and surgeons to enroll patients in multiple trials. He led 47 clinical sites nationwide to conduct the first RCT of hybrid coronary revascularization. He is listed on NIH RePORTER with 12 NHLBI PI roles.

Clinical and practice

Puskas performs cardiovascular surgical procedures including all-arterial coronary bypass grafting, minimally invasive robotic coronary bypass surgery, hybrid coronary

revascularization In medical and surgical therapy, revascularization is the restoration of perfusion to a body part or organ that has had ischemia. It is typically accomplished by surgical means. Vascular bypass and angioplasty are the two primary means of reva ...

, off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery,

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surgery for the treatment of atrial fibrillation,

mitral valve The mitral valve (), also known as the bicuspid valve or left atrioventricular valve, is one of the four heart valves. It has two cusps or flaps and lies between the left atrium and the left ventricle of the heart. The heart valves are all one-w ...

repair/replacement,

aortic valve The aortic valve is a valve in the heart of humans and most other animals, located between the left ventricle and the aorta. It is one of the four valves of the heart and one of the two semilunar valves, the other being the pulmonary valve. The ...

replacement, valve-sparing aortic root replacement and surgery for

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. He performed the first triple off-pump bypass surgery using minimally invasive coronary artery bypass graft instrumentation in 1997. Between 1996 and 2022, he performed approximately 300 cardiac surgical cases annually, specializing in multiple arterial

and robotic CABG. In 2019, Puskas, with Gianluca Torregrossa, MD, successfully performed two totally endoscopic coronary arterial bypass surgeries ( TECABs) making Mount Sinai the only New York State health system qualified to make the procedure available. As of 2022, Puskas has served as President of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (2009) and the International Society for Coronary Artery Surgery.

U.S. patents

Present societies

* International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS) *

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American Association for Thoracic Surgery The American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) is an international association of cardiothoracic surgeons. It was founded in 1917 by the earliest pioneers in the field of thoracic surgery. Headquartered in Beverly, Massachusetts, it has over ...

American College of Chest Physicians The American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) is a medical association in the United States consisting of physicians and non-physician specialists in the field of chest medicine, which includes pulmonology, critical care medicine, and sleep med ...

American College of Cardiology The American College of Cardiology (ACC), based in Washington, D.C., is a nonprofit medical association established in 1949. It bestows credentials upon cardiovascular specialists who meet its qualifications. Education is a core component of the ...

''*Present indicates 2022''

Publications

Editorial

As of 2022, Puskas is a reviewer and editorial contributor to nine journals, including Annuals Thoracic Surgery,

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery ''The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery'' is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering cardiothoracic surgery, cardiology, pulmonary medicine, and vascular disease published by Elsevier. It is the official journal of the Ame ...

, Heart Surgery Forum, The Lancet, The

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, Circulation,

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, European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Peer reviewed

PubMed lists 320 publications as of 2022. A short list ranked by citations include: Smith, P. K., Puskas, J. D., Ascheim, D. D., Voisine, P., Gelijns, A. C., Moskowitz, A. J., ... & Michler, R. E. (2014). Surgical treatment of moderate ischemic mitral regurgitation. ''New England Journal of Medicine'', ''371''(23), 2178-2188; 273 citations Puskas, J. D., Thourani, V. H., Marshall, J. J., Dempsey, S. J., Steiner, M. A., Sammons, B. H., ... & Guyton, R. A. (2001). Clinical outcomes, angiographic patency, and resource utilization in 200 consecutive off-pump coronary bypass patients. ''The Annals of thoracic surgery'', ''71''(5), 1477-1484; 324 citations Gaudino, M., Benedetto, U., Fremes, S., Biondi-Zoccai, G., Sedrakyan, A., Puskas, J. D., ... & Taggart, D. P. (2018). Radial-artery or saphenous-vein grafts in coronary-artery bypass surgery. ''New England Journal of Medicine'', ''378''(22), 2069-2077; 295 citations Gillinov, A. M., Gelijns, A. C., Parides, M. K., DeRose Jr, J. J., Moskowitz, A. J., Voisine, P., ... & Argenziano, M. (2015). Surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation during mitral-valve surgery. ''New England Journal of Medicine'', ''372''(15), 1399-1409; 261 citations El-Chami, M. F., Kilgo, P., Thourani, V., Lattouf, O. M., Delurgio, D. B., Guyton, R. A., ... & Puskas, J. D. (2010). New-onset atrial fibrillation predicts long-term mortality after coronary artery bypass graft. ''Journal of the American College of Cardiology'', ''55''(13), 1370-1376; 338 citations

Books and chapters

''State of the Art Surgical Coronary Revascularization''. Winston AD and Puskas JD. "''Techniques for Multivessel OPCAB''". Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery. 2ndEdition, edited by Oz MC and Goldstein DJ, Humana Press, 2003. Sharoni E and Puskas JD. "''Techniques in Multivessel OPCAB''". Operative Cardiac Surgery, edited by Gardner T J and Spray TL, Arnold Publishers, 2004. Thourani VH and Puskas JD. "''Coronary Artery Bypass Procedures·Medical Management of the Surgical Patient''." Fourth Edition, edited by Lubin MF, Walker HK, Smith RB III, 2006. Song HK and Puskas JD. "''Off-pump Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery''". Mastery of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2nd Edition, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, New York, 2007. Richard J. Myung and John D. Puskas. "''Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting for Repeat Coronary Revascularization''", Redo Cardiac Surgery in Adults, 2nd Edition, Edited by Venkat R. Machiraju, Hartzell V. Schaff and Lars G. Svensson. Springer. 2011. Michael E. Halkos, John D. Puskas. "''Minimally Invasive Coronary Artery Bypass Graft to Cardiac Surgery: Recent Advances and Techniques''", 2012. Yanagawa B and Puskas JD. “''Off-Pump Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting''”, in Mastery of Techniques in Cardiac Surgery, 2016. Michael E. Halkos, Emmanuel Moss, and John D. Puskas. “''Chapter 2 Off-pump versus on-pump coronary artery bypass grafting''”, in Core Concepts in Cardiac Surgery, Edited by David Taggart and Yasir Abu-Omar, Oxford University Press, 2018. Bobby Yanagawa, Michael E. Halkos, John D. Puskas. “''Chapter 21: Myocardial Revascularization Without Cardiopulmonary Bypass''”, in Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, 5e, Edited by Lawrence H. Cohn, David H. Adams, Cenveo® Publisher Services, 2018.

References

External links

The Cardiothoracic Surgery Network

The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

American Association for Thoracic Surgery

International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery

International Coronary Congress
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