Dr. Marc Gerdisch, MD, FACS, FACC, is the chief of cardiovascular and thoracic surgery at Franciscan Health and co-director of the Franciscan Health Heart Valve Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. Doctor Gerdisch is also a senior partner with Cardiac Surgery Associates specializing in complex heart valve and atrial fibrillation surgery.

During the past 21 years, Dr. Gerdisch has performed more than 6,000 surgical procedures. Doctor Gerdisch presents internationally on novel surgical techniques for cardiac care. For the past 10 years, Dr. Gerdisch has trained surgeons on the surgical treatment of atrial fibrillation using the Maze procedure…

Dr. Matthew A. Romano, M.D. is an Assistant Professor of Cardiac Surgery and the Assistant Director of the multidisciplinary Mitral Valve Clinic of the Frankel Cardiovascular Center at Michigan Medicine. His clinical interests and expertise include mitral and tricuspid valve repair, minimally invasive valve surgery, percutaneous and catheter based mitral and tricuspid valve repair and replacement, and treatment of atrial fibrillation.

The key highlights from Dr. Romano’s video include…

Dr. Vaughn Starnes, MD, is chair of the Department of Surgery, Surgeon-in-Chief at Keck School of Medicine of University of Southern California and the 100th president of the AATS. Dr. Starnes has over twenty-five years experience performing successful cardiac operations on both children and adults utilizing minimally-invasive mitral valve surgery, aortic valve surgery and concomitant AFib surgery.

Watch this video to learn why Dr. Starnes states that a Maze procedure is his standard of care for his patients who…