Shadow the Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center

Open to High School or College Students for Educational Purposes. The auction winner must be a fully COVID vaccinated with proof of vaccination.

Steve Xydas, M.D., is the chief of the Columbia University Division of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center and co-director of the Mount Sinai Heart Institute.

Dr. Xydas is board certified in cardiac and general surgery and is an expert in minimally invasive, open, endovascular, and transcatheter approaches to a full spectrum of serious cardiac diseases, including valve disease, coronary disease, and aortic aneurysms. He has extensive experience in valve-sparing aortic root repairs and innovative treatments to thoracic aneurysms.

Dr. Xydas is a graduate of Harvard College and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He completed his general surgery and cardiovascular surgery training at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, New York. He spent nearly eight years as a cardiothoracic surgeon at Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey, a U.S. News & World Report "Top 50 Hospital" for cardiac surgery, where he established a prolific, high-volume surgical practice with one of the lowest mortality rates in New Jersey based on published state reports. In addition, doctors chose Dr. Xydas nationally as a "Top Doctor" as part of Castle Connolly's Top Doctor survey every year since 2016.

Dr. Xydas has extensive research and commercial experience with transcatheter aortic valve replacement using the Sapien and Corevalve devices. He is a co-investigator on clinical trials, including the Corevalve Pivotal, Corevalve SURTAVI, Sapien 3 (Partner 3) TAVR trials and the International Aortic Arch Surgery Study Group. He has participated in many international operative surgical symposia and has lectured on a national and international level.

Dr. Xydas is proficient in all aspects of cardiac surgery. A native of Long Island, New York, he speaks Greek and Spanish.

Open to High School or College Students for Educational Purposes.

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