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About David H. Adams
- 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',' Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. Dr.
- Adams is a recognized leader in the field of heart valve surgery and mitral valve reconstruction.
- As director of Mount Sinai Mitral Valve Repair Center, he has set national benchmarks with >99% degenerative mitral valve repair rates, while running one of the largest valve repair programs in the United States. Dr.
- Adams is the co-inventor of 2 mitral valve annuloplasty repair rings (the Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix Ring and the Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring, and is a senior consultant with royalty agreements with Edwards Lifesciences.
- He is also the inventor of the Tri-Ad Adams Tricuspid Annuloplasty ring with a royalty agreement with Medtronic.
- He is a co-author with Professor Alain Carpentier of the benchmark textbook in mitral valve surgery Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery.
- He is also the National Co-Principal Investigator of the FDA pivotal trial of the Medtronic-CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve replacement device.
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