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More About John R. Doty, MD
Staff Surgeon, Intermountain Medical Center
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Utah School of Medicine
- Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Georgetown University School of Medicine, MD, 1994
- Internship: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1994-95
- Residency: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, 1995-96, 1998-2000
- Research Fellowship: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Cardiac Surgery, 1996-98
- Fellowship: The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2000-03
- American Board of Surgery 2001, Thoracic Surgery 2003
Aortic disease
Homografts
Ross Procedure
Stentless valves
Cardiac Transplantation
Spinal cord protection during thoracic aneurysm surgery
Internet-based education for cardiothoracic surgery
Information technology applications for cardiovascular disease
Clinical outcomes for homograft and xenograft valves
Minimally invasive surgery
Surgery for atrial fibrillation
Society of Thoracic Surgery
American College of Surgeons – Fellow
American College of Cardiology – Fellow
American Heart Association
Cardiothoracic Surgery Network
- Doty DB, Doty JR, Jones KW. Bypass of superior vena cava. Fifteen years’ experience with spiral vein graft for obstruction of superior vena cava caused by benign disease. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1990 May;99(5):889-95; discussion 895-6.
- Fonger JD, Doty JR, Sussman MS, Salomon NW. Lateral MIDCAB grafting via limited posterior thoracotomy. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 1997 Sep;12(3):399-404; discussion 404-5.
- Doty JR , Fonger JD, Nicholson CF, Sussman MS, Salomon NW. Cost analysis of current therapies for limited coronary artery revascularization. Circulation. 1997 Nov 4;96(9 Suppl):II-16-20.
- Doty JR , Salazar JD, Liddicoat JR, Flores JH, Doty DB. Aortic valve replacement with cryopreserved aortic allograft: ten-year experience. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1998 Feb;115(2):371-9; discussion 379-80.
- Doty DB, DiRusso GB, Doty JR. Full-spectrum cardiac surgery through a minimal incision: mini-sternotomy (lower half) technique. Ann Thorac Surg. 1998 Feb;65(2):573-7.
- Liddicoat JR, Doty JR, Stuart RS. Management of the atherosclerotic ascending aorta with endoaortic occlusion. Ann Thorac Surg. 1998 Apr;65(4):1133-5.
- Doty JR , Salazar JD, Fonger JD, Walinsky PL, Sussman MS, Salomon NW. Reoperative MIDCAB grafting: 3-year clinical experience. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 1998 Jun;13(6):641-9.
- Doty JR , Walinsky PL, Salazar JD, Alejo DE, Greene PS, Baumgartner WA. Conservative management of late rejection after heart transplantation: a 10-year analysis. Ann Surg. 1998 Sep;228(3):395-401.
- Doty JR , Liddicoat JR, Salomon NW, Greene PS. Surgical education via the Internet: the Cardiothoracic Surgery Network. Md Med J. 1998 Nov;47(5):264-6.
- Fonger JD, Doty JR. The expanded role of minimally invasive coronary grafting. Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. 1998 Oct;14 Suppl 1:S3-6.
- Salazar JD, Doty JR, Tseng EE, Marin PC, Girotto JA, Roseborough GS, Yang SC, Heitmiller RF. Relationship of the long thoracic nerve to the scapular tip: an aid to prevention of proximal nerve injury. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1998 Dec;116(6):960-4.
- Salazar JD, Doty JR, Lin JW, Dyke MC, Roberts J, Heitmiller ES, Heitmiller RF. Does cell type influence post-esophagectomy survival in patients with esophageal cancer? Dis Esophagus. 1998 Jul;11(3):168-71.
- Doty JR , Doty DB. Management of small aortic roots. Adv Card Surg. 1998;10:175-96.
- Doty JR , Cameron DE, Elmaci T, Salomon NW. Penetrating trauma to the tricuspid valve and ventricular septum: delayed repair. Ann Thorac Surg. 1999 Jan;67(1):252-3.
- Doty JR , Flores JH, Millar RC, Doty DB. Aortic valve replacement with medtronic freestyle bioprosthesis: operative technique and results. J Card Surg. 1998 May;13(3):208-17.
- Doty JR , Fonger JD, Salazar JD, Walinsky PL, Salomon NW. Early experience with minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass grafting with the internal thoracic artery. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1999 May;117(5):873-80.
- Doty JR , Flores JH, Doty DB. Superior vena cava obstruction: bypass using spiral vein graft. Ann Thorac Surg. 1999 Apr;67(4):1111-6.
- Baumgartner WA, Walinsky PL, Salazar JD, Tseng EE, Brock MV, Doty JR, Redmond JM, Blue ME, Goldsborough MA, Troncoso JC, Johnston MV. Assessing the impact of cerebral injury after cardiac surgery: will determining the mechanism reduce this injury? Ann Thorac Surg. 1999 Jun;67(6):1871-3; discussion 1891-4.
- Fonger JD, Doty JR, Salazar JD, Walinsky PL, Salomon NW. Initial experience with MIDCAB grafting using the gastroepiploic artery. Ann Thorac Surg. 1999 Aug;68(2):431-6.
- Doty DB, Flores JH, Doty JR, Millar RC. Mitral valve replacement with homograft. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1999 Oct;11(4 Suppl 1):191-3.
- Doty DB, Flores JH, Doty JR . Cardiac valve operations using a partial sternotomy (lower half) technique. J Card Surg 2000;15:35-42.
- Chun HJ, Doty JR, Salazar JD, Richmond J, Fonger JD. Noninvasive graft flow and patency assessment following minimally invasive direct coronary artery bypass (MIDCAB) grafting. Heart Surg Forum. 1999;2(3):230-4.
- Salazar JD, Wityk RJ, Grega MA, Borowicz LM, Doty JR, Petrofski JA, Baumgartner WA. Stroke after cardiac surgery: short- and long-term outcomes. Ann Thorac Surg. 2001 Oct;72(4):1195-201.
- Doty DB, Doty JR, Flores JH, Millar RC. Cardiac valve replacement with mitral homograft. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2001 Oct;13(4 Suppl):35-42.
- Doty JR , Salazar JD, Forastiere AA, Heath EI, Kleinberg L, Heitmiller RF. Post-esophagectomy morbidity, mortality, and length of stay after preoperative chemoradiation. Ann Thorac Surg. 2002 Jul;74(1):227-31.
- Doty JR, Cameron JL, Yeo CJ, Campbell K, Coleman J, Hruban RH. Cholecystectomy, liver resection, and pylorus-preserving pancreaticoduodenectomy for gallbladder cancer. Report of five cases. J Gastrointest Surg. 2002 Sep-Oct;6(5):776-80.
- Doty JR and Doty DB. Images in clinical medicine. Floating left atrial thrombus. N Engl J Med. 2002 Nov 7;347(19):e5.
- Doty JR , Walinsky PL, Salazar JD, Haggerty M, Brawn J, Redmond JM, Baumgartner WA, Gott VL. Left atrial-inferior vena cava bypass achieves retroperfusion of the porcine spinal cord: morphologic and preliminary physiologic studies. J Surg Res. 2002 Nov;108(1):157-64.
- Chen H, Doty JR, Schlossberg L, Bulkley GB. Technique of thymectomy by anterior-superior cervicomediastinal exenteration. J Am Coll Surg. 2002 Dec;195(6):895-900.
- Doty JR , Wilentz RE, Salazar JD, Hruban RH, Cameron DE. Atheroembolism in cardiac surgery. Ann Thorac Surg 2003 Apr;75:1221-1226.
- Doty JR and Doty DB. Stentless xenografts for aortic valve replacement. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2003 Apr;17(2):240-51.
- Salazar JD, Lee R, Wheatley GH 3rd, Doty JR. Are there enough jobs in cardiothoracic surgery? The thoracic surgery residents association job placement survey for finishing residents. Ann Thorac Surg. 2004 Nov;78(5):1523-7.
- Bethea BT, Salazar JD, Grega MA, Doty JR, Fitton TP, Alejo DE, Borowicz LM Jr, Gott VL, Sussman MS, Baumgartner WA. Determining the utility of temporary pacing wires after coronary artery bypass surgery. Ann Thorac Surg. 2005 Jan;79(1):104-7.
More About U. (Lee) McCann, MD
Course Co-Director
Utah Valley Regional Medical Center, Provo, Utah
University of Texas Health Science Center – San Antonio, MD, 1996
Residency: SUNY Health Science Center – Syracuse, 1996-2003
Fellowship: SUNY Health Science Center – Syracuse, 1998-2000
Baylor College of Medicine – Houston, 2003-2005
American Board of Surgery 2004, Thoracic Surgery 2007
Faculty
More About Alpana Senapati, DO
Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, DO, 2012
Residency: Cleveland Clinic – Internal Medicine, 2012-2015
Fellowship: Houston Methodist Hospital/DeBakey Heart
- Cardiovascular Medicine, 2015-2018
- Advanced Cardiac Imaging, 2018-2020
American Board of Internal Medicine 2015, Cardiovascular Disease 2018
More About Bruce B. Reid, MD
- Staff Surgeon, Intermountain Medical Center
- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Utah School of Medicine
Clinical research Adult cardiac surgery Mechanical circulatory support General thoracic surgery
Heart transplantation
Atrial fibrillation
More About David C. Griffin, MD
Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery
Staff Surgeon – Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
University of Nebraska College of Medicine, MD, 2005
Residency:University of Utah, 2005 – 2011
Fellowship:Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, 2011 – 2013
American Board of Surgery 2012, Thoracic Surgery 2014
My practice is dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of both benign and malignant conditions of the chest, particularly of the lungs, esophagus, mediastinum, and chest wall. I have a strong focus on minimally invasive techniques including video assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) and laparoscopic procedures. I use these techniques when performing lung surgery such as lobectomy, minimally invasive esophagectomy, laparoscopic Heller myotomy, and laparoscopic repair of hiatal hernia and anti-reflux procedures. Finally, I am skilled in the minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum (chest bone inversion) and advanced airway interventions, including endobronchial ultrasound, navigational bronchoscopy, and airway stenting.
American Medical Association
Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Staff Surgeon – Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
University of Nebraska College of Medicine, MD, 2005
Residency:University of Utah, 2005 – 2011
Fellowship:Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA, 2011 – 2013
American Board of Surgery 2012, Thoracic Surgery 2014
More About David R. Goff, MD
McKay-Dee Hospital Center, Ogden, Utah
University of Utah School of Medicine, MD, 1986
Internship: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center – Dallas/ Parkland Memorial Hospital, 1986-87
Residency: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center – Dallas/ Parkland Memorial Hospital, 1987-91
Fellowship: University of Michigan Hospital – Ann Arbor
Thoracic Surgery, 1991-93
American Board of Surgery 1992, Thoracic Surgery 1993
Coronary artery bypass surgery Valve repair and replacement
Off-pump coronary artery bypass
Arrhythmia surgery
Ischemia-reperfusion injury
Neurologic outcomes after cardiac surgery
American Board of Thoracic Surgery
American College of Surgeons
John Alexander Society
Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Utah Medical Association
Weber County Medical Society
Western Thoracic Surgical Association
Goff DR, Purdue GF, Hunt JL, Cochran RP: Cardiac Disease and the Patient with Burns, J Burn Care & Rehabilitation. 1990, 11(4):305.
More About John Stringham, MD, FACS
More About Kent G. Meredith, MD
Interventional Cardiologist/Teaching Faculty, Medical Director of Nuclear Cardiology, Medical Director of STEMI Program
Intermountain Healthcare, Utah Heart Clinic
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Utah School of Medicine
Interim Chief of Cardiology, Intermountain Riverton Hospital
Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
Medical College of Ohio, MD, 1999
Internship: University of Arizona, Tucson, 1999-2000
Residency: University of Arizona, Tucson, 2000-2003
Fellowship: Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, Cardiology, 2003-05
Fellowship: University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Interventional Cardiology, 2005-07
American Board of Internal Medicine 2002, Cardiology 2006
Interventional Cardiology 2007
Interventional Cardiology Nuclear Cardiology
Identification of methods to detect and treat vulnerable plaque
- Tuttle CR, McClure BS, Horne BD, May HT, Meredith KG, Carlquist JF, Muhlestein JB, Anderson JL. Which controls are best for CAD association studies: a random population sample or angiographically normal subjects? A comparison of genetic and traditional risk factors. J Am Coll Cardiol 2008;51(10): A252.
- KG Meredith, PJ Casterella. Choosing Pharmacotherapy for Primary PCI in Acute Myocardial Infarction: Review of the Agents and Strategies Commonly Used During Percutaneous Intervention for ST-Segment Elevated Myocardial Infarction. Cardiac Interventions Today. March 2008:1-7.
- A Tandar, CM Lehman, GM Rodgers, KG Meredith, JB Muhlestein, WH Barry, AD Michaels, HR Lee. Activation of coagulation during routine diagnostic coronary angiography. EuroInterv. 2007; 3:345-349.
- TL Bair, JB Muhlestein, HT May, KG Meredith, BD Horne, RR Pearson, Q Li, KR Jensen, JL Anderson, DL Lappe. Surgical revascularization is associated with improved long-term outcomes compared with percutaneous stenting in most subgroup of patients with multivessel coronary artery disease: results from the Intermountain Heart Registry. Circulation. 2007 Sept 11:116(11 Suppl): I226-31.
- KG Meredith, BD Horne, RR Pearson, CA Maycock, DL Lappe, JL Anderson, JB Muhlestein. Comparison of effects of high (80 mg) versus low (20 mg) dose of simvastatin on C-reactive protein and lipoproteins in patients with angiographic evidence of coronary arterial narrowing. Am J Cardiol. 2007 Jan 15;99(2):149-53.
- Tandar A, Meredith KG, Anderson JL. Multiple left ventricular diverticuli in an asymptomatic adult: case report and review of the literature. Catheter Cardiovasc Interv. 2007 Feb 15;69(3):453-8.
- Meredith KG, Badger RS, Tandar A, May HT, Bair TL, Kosmicki DL, Michaels AD, Anderson JL, Horne BD, Muhlestein JB. Stent Thrombosis in the Modern Drug-eluting Stent Era compared to the Bare-Metal Stent Era: A Comparison from a Large Clinical Registry. J Am Coll Cardiol 2007;49(9) supplement B: 24B.
- Meredith KG, Tandar A, Lappé DL, May HT, Michaels AD, Anderson JL, Muhlestein JB. Effects of Drug-Eluting Stents on Hospital Readmission Rates and Long-term Repeat Revascularization: Outcomes from a Large Clinical Registry. J Am Coll Cardiol 2007;49(9): 287A.
- Meredith KG, Anderson JL, May HT, Horne BD, Pearson RR, Bair TL, Muhlestein JB. Extended follow-up for outcomes of drug-eluting stents in”real-world” practice: is caution indicated? Circulation 2006;114: 453.
- Bair TL, Muhlestein JB, May HT, Meredith KG, Horne BD, Pearson RR, Anderson JL, Li Q, Jensen KR, Lappé DL. Surgical revascularization is associated with improved long-term outcomes compared to percutaneous stenting in patients with multivessel coronary artery disease. Circulation 2006;114: 430.
- Meredith KG, May HT, Bair TL, Anderson JL, Horne BD, Tandar A, Pearson RR, Tuttle CR, Muhlestein JB. Blood transfusions are associated with worse outcomes compared to no transfusion in patients with similar degrees of anemia and hematocrit decline while undergoing coronary angiography. Circulation 2006;114: 841.
- KG Meredith, A Tandar, Y Al Saghir, H Thomas, BD Horne, TL Bair, RR Pearson, JL Anderson, JB Muhlestein. Increased Stent Deployment Pressures Result in Lower Rates of Clinically Driven Target Lesion Revascularization for Drug-Eluting Stents. Published in Proceedings of 2nd Annual Cardiology Fellows’ Clinical Research Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, March 2006.
- YY Fadl, N Rong, MA Brown, KG Meredith, JE Perez, RJ Krone. Contrast Stress Echocardiography for Improved Accuracy in Evaluation of Myocardial Ischemia in Women. J Am Coll Cardiol 2006; 47(4)suppl:121A.
- A Tandar, KG Meredith, H Thomas, TL Bair, BD Horne, WH Barry, JL Anderson, JB Muhlestein. Atrial Fibrillation Is A Long-Term Predictor of Poor Outcome in Acute Myocardial Infarction. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006;47(4)suppl:201A
- DL Kosmicki, KG Meredith, H Thomas, BD Horne, RR Pearson, T Bair, RS Badger, WH Barry, JL Anderson, JB Muhlestein. Does Size Really Matter? A Comparison of Drug-Eluting versus Bare-Metal Stents at Different Stent Diameters. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2006; 47(4)suppl:43B.
- KG Meredith, FC Kim, and HM Thai. Diastolic dysfunction as a determinant for increased left atrial diameter and atrial fibrillation. Journal of Investigative Medicine 2002; 50(1): 69A.
- TD Tran, KG Meredith, FC Kim, HM Thai, S Goldman, MA Gaballa. Aldosterone antagonism improves endothelial dependent vasorelaxation in heart failure via nitric oxide mediated mechanism. Journal of Investigative Medicine 2002; 50(1): 40A.
More About Peter J. Smit, MD
More About Rami Alharethi, MD, FACC
Heart Failure Prevention and Treatment – Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
University of Aleppo, Aleppo, Syria 1995
Internship:St. Joseph Hospital, Chicago, IL 1998-1999
Residency:St. Joseph Hospital, Chicago, IL 1999-2001
Fellowship: Advanced Heart Failure 2001-2003
Cardiovascular Disease 2003-2005
American Board of Cardiovascular Disease 2005
American Board of Advanced Heart Failure 2010
More About Reilly D. Hobbs, MD, MBS
Primary Children’s Medical Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Wayne State University School of Medicine, MD, 2012
Residency: University of Pennsylvania – Philadelphia, PA, 2012-2017
Fellowship: University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, MI, 2017-2019
Fellowship: C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, MI, 2019-2021
American Board of Surgery 2017, Thoracic Surgery 2021, Congenital 2022
More About Ryan C. Knoper, MD
McKay-Dee Hospital, Ogden, Utah
University of Arizona College of Medicine, MD, 2011
Residency: Rush University Medical Center – Chicago, 2011-2016
Fellowship: University of Minnesota, 2016-2019
American Board of Surgery 2017, Thoracic Surgery 2021
More About Scott N. Hurst, MD
Attending Anesthesiologist, Intermountain Medical Center
-Member, Division of Cardiovascular Anesthesia
Medical Staff, The Orthopedic Specialty Hospital
-Member, Division of Anesthesiology
Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
University of Utah School of Medicine, MD, 1981
Internship: University of Utah, 1981-82
Residency: University of Utah, 1982-84
American Board of Anesthesiology, 1986
Cardiothoracic anesthesia management
Non-cardiac surgery in the patient with heart disease
Anesthesia for orthopedic surgery
American Society of Anesthesiologists
Society of Cardiovascular Anesthesiologists
American Medical Association
Utah Medical Society
Utah Society of Anesthesiologists
More About Stephen H. McKellar, MD, M.Sc.
More About William T. Caine, MD
Intermountain Medical Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
University of Utah School of Medicine, MD, 1993
Residency: Massachusetts General Hospital,1993-1998
Fellowship: Massachusetts General Hospital, 1998-1999
Research Fellowship: Brigham & Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Surgery, 1999-2000
Fellowship: LDS Hospital, Cardiac Surgery, 2000-2001
Fellowship: University of Utah, Thoracic Surgery, 2001-2003
American Board of Surgery 2000, Thoracic Surgery 2004
Coronary artery bypass surgery
Valve repair and replacement
Off-pump coronary artery bypass
Arrhythmia surgery
Ischemia-reperfusion injury
Neurologic outcomes after cardiac surgery
Coronary artery bypass surgery
Valve repair and replacement
Off-pump coronary artery bypass
Arrhythmia surgery
Ischemia-reperfusion injury
Neurologic outcomes after cardiac surgery
Fellow, American College of Surgeons
The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Western Thoracic Surgical Association
Henry N. Harkins Surgical Society
Massachusetts General Hospital Surgical Society
Washington State Medical Association
American Heart Association
Massachusetts Medical Society
Utah Medical Association
American Medical Association
- Moore FD Jr, Caine WT. Emerging immunologic basis of reperfusion injury. Transplantation Reviews 2000;14:158-67.
