David H. Adams

David H. Adams
Occupation Cardiothoracic Surgeon
Employer The Mount Sinai Hospital
Title Marie-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 The Mount Sinai Hospital.[1] Dr. Adams is a recognized leader in the field of heart valve surgery and mitral valve reconstruction. As Program Director of the Mount Sinai Mitral Valve Repair Center, he has set national benchmarks with >99% degenerative mitral valve repair rates,[2] 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[3] and the Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring,[4] 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.[5] He is a co-author with Professor Alain Carpentier of the benchmark textbook in mitral valve surgery Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery.[6] He is also the National Co-Principal Investigator of the upcoming FDA pivotal trial of the Medtronic-CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve replacement device.[7]

Biography

Adams is a cardiac surgeon at the The Mount Sinai Hospital, specializing in mitral valve repair. He is the author of over 200 publications,[8] holds three patents(Patent number 7.959.673, 6.660.265 and 6.540.781) and is recognized as a leading surgeon scientist and medical expert, serving on the Editorial Boards of several medical journals, including the Annals of Thoracic Surgery and Cardiology. Adams is a much sought after speaker both nationally and internationally,[9] and has developed one of the world’s largest video libraries of techniques in valve reconstruction.[10] He is co-director of the annual American College of Cardiology/American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Heart Valve Disease Summit,[11] and the Director of the biennial AATS Mitral Conclave.[12] He received his undergraduate and medical education at Duke University and completed his internship and residency in general and cardiothoracic surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital and at Harvard Medical School. Adams followed that with a fellowship in the Cardiothoracic Unit at Harefield Hospital in London under Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub. In addition, he completed a two-year research fellowship under Professor Morris Karnovsky in the Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. He later served at Brigham and Women's Hospital as the Associate Chief of Cardiac Surgery and Director of the Brigham Primate Xeno-transplant Laboratory. He has been Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital since 2002.[13]

Scientific investigator

Adams’ clinical interests include all aspects of heart valve surgery, with a special emphasis on mitral valve reconstruction.

Areas of research

Adams' major research interests include:[14]

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. He has also received honorary Professorships from Capital University in Beijing and Keio University in Tokyo.

Partial publications list

Inventor

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.[18]

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, 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... Ima came out perfect and healthy. She’s healthy, headstrong, independent. Adams saved two lives at once."[18]

Awards and honors

References

  1. ↑ "Doctor Profile", Mount Sinai Hospital retrieved March 13, 2013
  2. ↑ "A near 100% repair rate for mitral valve prolapse is achievable in a reference center: implications for future guidelines", PubMed retrieved March 19, 2013
  3. ↑ "Edwards Lifesciences", Edwards Lifesciences retrieved March 13, 2013
  4. ↑ "Edwards Lifesciences", Edwards Lifesciences retrieved March 13, 2013
  5. ↑ Medtronic retrieved March 13, 2013
  6. ↑ "Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery", Elsevier Health retrieved March 13, 2013
  7. ↑ "NIH" FDA Trial retrieved March 13, 2013
  8. ↑ "PubMed" retrieved March 13, 2013
  9. ↑ "Academic Events", Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center retrieved March 13, 2013
  10. ↑ "Video Library", Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center retrieved March 13, 2013
  11. ↑ "Heart Valve Summit", AATS retrieved March 13, 2013
  12. ↑ "Mitral Conclave", AATS retrieved March 13, 2013
  13. ↑ "David H. Adams CV", Mount Sinai
  14. ↑ "Biography of David Adams", Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center retrieved March 13, 2013
  15. ↑ "Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix Annuloplasty Ring Patent", U.S. Patent & Trademark Office retrieved March 13, 2013
  16. ↑ "Cryopreserved, or minimally fixed cardiac valvular xenografts patent", U.S. Patent & Trademark Office retrieved March 13, 2013
  17. ↑ "Cryopreserved homografts having natural tissue sewing rings patent", U.S. Patent & Trademark Office retrieved March 13, 2013
  18. 1 2 3 Levine, Mark (5 June 2005). "A Heart-Stopping Pregnancy". New York. Retrieved 24 July 2009.
  19. ↑ "Doctor Profile", Mount Sinai retrieved March 13, 2013

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