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'''David H. Adams''' is an [[United States|American]] [[cardiac surgeon]] and the Marie-Josée and [[Henry Kravis|Henry R. Kravis]] Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at [[Mount Sinai Hospital, New York|Mount Sinai Medical Center]].
'''David H. Adams''' is an [[United States|American]] [[cardiac surgeon]] and the Marie-Josée and [[Henry Kravis|Henry R. Kravis]] Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at [[Mount Sinai Hospital, New York|Mount Sinai Medical Center]]. Dr. Adams is a proud closeted homosexual.


Adams is internationally recognized as a leader in the field of heart valve surgery and [[mitral valve repair]]. He is a much sought after speaker in this field, and has an extensive video library of advanced techniques in valve reconstruction. He is a co-author, with Professor [[Alain F. Carpentier]], of the upcoming book ''Carpentier's Valve Reconstruction'', and is a co-creator of 2 mitral valve annuloplasty repair rings (Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring and the Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix Ring). He is a senior consultant with patent and royalty agreements with [[Edwards Lifesciences]], the largest heart valve company in the world. He is also the Co-Director of the annual [[American College of Cardiology]] Heart Valve Summit.
Adams is internationally recognized as a leader in the field of heart valve surgery and [[mitral valve repair]]. He is a much sought after speaker in this field, and has an extensive video library of advanced techniques in valve reconstruction. He is a co-author, with Professor [[Alain F. Carpentier]], of the upcoming book ''Carpentier's Valve Reconstruction'', and is a co-creator of 2 mitral valve annuloplasty repair rings (Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring and the Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix Ring). He is a senior consultant with patent and royalty agreements with [[Edwards Lifesciences]], the largest heart valve company in the world. He is also the Co-Director of the annual [[American College of Cardiology]] Heart Valve Summit.

Revision as of 20:41, 13 July 2009

David H. Adams
File:Davidadams.jpg
OccupationCardiothoracic Surgeon
EmployerMount Sinai Medical Center
TitleMarie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chairman

David H. Adams is an American cardiac surgeon and the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Adams is a proud closeted homosexual.

Adams is internationally recognized as a leader in the field of heart valve surgery and mitral valve repair. He is a much sought after speaker in this field, and has an extensive video library of advanced techniques in valve reconstruction. He is a co-author, with Professor Alain F. Carpentier, of the upcoming book Carpentier's Valve Reconstruction, and is a co-creator of 2 mitral valve annuloplasty repair rings (Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring and the Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix Ring). He is a senior consultant with patent and royalty agreements with Edwards Lifesciences, the largest heart valve company in the world. He is also the Co-Director of the annual American College of Cardiology Heart Valve Summit.

Biography

Adams is a cardiac surgeon at The Mount Sinai Hospital, specializing in mitral valve repair. As Program Director of the Mitral Valve Repair Center, he has set national benchmarks with 99% repair rates and less than 0.2 mortality rates.[1] He is the author of over 200 publications, holds three patents and serves on the Editorial Boards of several medical journals, including the Annals of Thoracic Surgery.

He received his undergraduate and medical education at Duke University and served his internship and residency in general and cardiothoracic surgery at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and at Harvard Medical School in Boston.[1] Adams followed that with a fellowship in the Cardiothoracic Unit at Harefield Hospital in London under Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub. In addition, he took time away from his clinical training to complete a two-year research fellowship under Professor Morris Karnovsky in the Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School.

At Brigham and Women's Hospital/Boston Children's Hospital he was Associate Director of the Cardiothoracic Residency Program and Director of the Hospital Primate Laboratory, then Director of the Cardiothoracic Residency Program. He has been Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center since 2002, following Randall B. Griepp.[2]

Medical miracle

In 2005 New York Magazine featured Adams as having performed "Medical Miracle #7" when, in 2004, he performed mitral valve surgery on actress Liana Pai, who was then six months pregnant with her first child.[3]

Immediate surgery was required to address Pai's aggressive bacterial infection. A conventional surgical procedure – arresting the heart during the operation, using a heart-and-lung machine, and following up with a regime of anti-clotting drugs – would have terminated the actress's pregnancy. With an incision across Pai's breast bone, Dr. Adams drained blood from her heart into a reservoir where it could be oxygenated before being returned to the aorta. In the meantime, he replaced two valves, both too badly damaged to attempt reconstruction with time limited by lack of a heart-and-lung machine, with compatible organic tissue – thereby eliminating the need for pregnancy-prohibiting anti-clotting drugs post-surgery.

“I was glad to be alive, of course, but until my baby was born, I wouldn’t believe everything was okay.” Pai would get her satisfaction ten weeks later. “Ima came out perfect and healthy. She’s healthy, headstrong, independent. Adams saved two lives at once.”[4]

Awards and honors

  • Featured in New York Magazine’s list of Best Doctors in 2002 - 2009 and as one of the "Top 100 Minimally Invasive Surgeons" in 2006[3]
  • 2001 Best Oral Presentation, International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
  • 1986 Paul Dudley White Fellow, American Heart Association
  • 1986 Research Fellowship Award, American Heart Association
  • 1981 International College of Surgeons Scholarship

Publications

Partial List:

  • Adams DH, Anyanwu AC, Chikwe J, Filsoufi F. The year in cardiovascular surgery. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2009 Jun 23;53(25):2389-403. PMID: 19539151
  • Adams DH, Anyanwu AC. Valve Disease: Asymptomatic mitral regurgitation: does surgery save lives? Nat Rev Cardiol. 2009 May;6(5):330-2. PMID: 19377493
  • Adams DH, Anyanwu AC. Seeking a higher standard for degenerative mitral valve repair: begin with etiology. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2008 Sep;136(3):551-6. Full Text
  • Adams DH, Anyanwu AC, Sugeng L, Lang RM. Degenerative mitral valve regurgitation: surgical echocardiography. Curr Cardiol Rep. 2008 May;10(3):226-32. PMID: 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; STS; AATS; EACTS. Guidelines for reporting mortality and morbidity after cardiac valve interventions. Ann Thorac Surg. 2008 Apr;85(4):1490-5. PMID: 18355567
  • 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(2):105-10. PMID: 18303521
  • Anyanwu AC, Adams DH. Etiologic classification of degenerative mitral valve disease: Barlow's disease and fibroelastic deficiency. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2007 Summer;19(2):90-6. PMID: 17870001
  • Anyanwu AC, Adams DH. The intraoperative "ink test": a novel assessment tool in mitral valve repair. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2007 Jun;133(6):1635-6. PMID: 17532968
  • 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):1121-7. PMID: 17976438
  • 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):2096-100; discussion 2101. PMID: 17126117
  • Filsoufi F, Rahmanian PB, Anyanwu A, Adams DH. Physiologic basis for the surgical treatment of ischemic mitral regurgitation. Am Heart Hosp J. 2006 Fall;4(4):261-8. PMID: 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):241-57. PMID: 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):I588-93. PMID: 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):523-9. PMID: 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 nesiritide (BNP). Ann Thorac Surg. 2005 Aug;80(2):502-6. PMID: 16039193
  • 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):1812-8. PMID: 15854994
  • Filsoufi F, Salzberg SP, Adams DH. Current management of ischemic mitral regurgitation. Mt Sinai J Med. 2005 Mar;72(2):105-15. PMID: 15770340
  • Adams DH, Filsoufi F. Another chapter in an enlarging book: repair degenerative mitral valves. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2003 Jun;125(6):1197-9. PMID: 12830033

Patents and inventions

  • Carpentier A, McCarthy P, Adams DH. Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix Annuloplasty Ring. Edwards Lifesciences Corporation, Irvine, CA 2004.
  • Chen RH, Adams DH. Fresh, cryopreserved, or minimally fixed cardiac valvular xenografts. Patent filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office October 16, 2000.
  • Adams DH. Cryopreserved homografts having natural tissue sewing rings. Patent filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office January 27, 1999.

Areas of research

Adams' major research interests include:

  • Investigation of Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation
  • Outcomes Related to Mitral Valve Repair
  • Novel Mitral Valve Repair Strategies

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.

References

  1. ^ a b Mitral Valve Repair Center retrieved April 30, 2008
  2. ^ Curriculum Vitae retrieved April 30, 2008
  3. ^ a b Best Doctors, New York Magazine retrieved April 30, 2008
  4. ^ New York Magazine, "A Heart-Stopping Pregnancy" retrieved June 9. 2008
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