Jennifer S. Lawton, M.D., is the Richard Bennett Darnall Professor of Surgery and chief of the Johns Hopkins Division of Cardiac Surgery, as well as director of the Cardiac Surgery Research Laboratory. Dr. Lawton’s clinical area of focus is adult cardiac surgery. She also leads the division’s residency education program, and conduct research in myocyte volume regulation and ATP-sensitive K channels. She has held important leadership roles in several organizations, including chair of the surgery study section of the American Heart Association, vice-chair of the ACGME residency review committee, and president of the Women in Thoracic Surgery. Lawton’s achievements also include 81 peer-review publications, 7 book chapters, and 18 abstracts. She has delivered over 50 invited lectures. Dr. Lawton is rated as an Elite provider by MediFind in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). Her top areas of expertise are Heart Tumor, Aortic Dissection, Atrial Myxoma, Heart Bypass Surgery, and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG).

Michael Robich is a General Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Robich is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). His top areas of expertise are Aortic Valve Stenosis, Mediastinitis, Aortic Regurgitation, Heart Bypass Surgery, and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG).

Glenn Whitman, M.D., joined the Johns Hopkins Division of Cardiac Surgery in 2009 as associate professor of surgery. His training began at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a resident in surgery from 1979 to 1984. He then finished his general surgery training and then completed his training as a cardiothoracic surgeon at the University of Colorado. Thereafter, Dr. Whitman became an assistant professor at the University of Colorado and chief of cardiothoracic surgery at the Denver Veteran’s Administration Hospital, where he remained for two years. In 1990, he returned to his home city of Philadelphia, where he became chief of cardiac surgery at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, formerly Women’s Medical College, the first medical school in the United States to accept women. Dr. Whitman remained there for eight years before moving to the University of Maryland as chief of cardiac surgery. He has served as the director of transplantation and United Network for Organ Sharing representative at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia, as well as its director of perioperative services, managing preadmission testing, the operating room, and the post-anesthesia care unit. In 2007, he left Temple for Thomas Jefferson Hospital, taking over the responsibilities of running the cardiac surgery intensive care unit. In summer 2009, he was returned to Baltimore to run the cardiac surgery intensive care unit and oversee the performance improvement/quality assurance program for cardiac surgery at Johns Hopkins. Dr. Whitman’s initial research interests were in cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury and P31 nuclear magnetic resonance of cardiac bioenergetics, for which he received both National Institutes of Health and Department of Veterans Affairs funding. He has since become involved with quality outcome, and has presented at the American College of Surgeons and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons on the difficulties associated with performance improvement and quality assurance in the field of health care, particularly in the ICU. This past year, Dr. Whitman has stepped down from his role as the Chair of the Society of Thoracic Surgery Workforce on Critical Care, a role he had held since 2014. He continues to participate in the content of the Annual Meetings for the Society of Thoracic Surgery, The American Association of Thoracic Surgery, and The STS Fall Critical Care meetings as the Programmatic Co-Chair for Perioperative Care. This past year he has participated in two major consensus statements on postcardiotomy shock (see below) and low ejection fraction CABG patients (awaiting review). 2020 EACTS/ELSO/STS/AATS ExpertConsensus on Post-CardiotomyExtracorporeal Life Support in Adult Patients Ann Thorac Surg 2012;111:327-69. Dr. Whitman is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). His top areas of expertise are Cardiogenic Shock, Restrictive Cardiomyopathy (RCM), Hemolysis, Heart Bypass Surgery, and Heart Transplant.

Dr. Thomas Stephen Metkus is an assistant professor of cardiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His research focuses on using cardiac physiology for risk stratification and therapeutics in non-cardiac critical illness such as sepsis and the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and optimizing the management of non-cardiac organ failure in primary cardiac diseases such as heart failure and acute coronary syndromes. Dr. Metkus received his undergraduate degree from Boston University College of Engineering. He earned a medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed a residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. After completing residency, Dr. Metkus was a clinical fellow at both Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins Hospital. Prior to joining the faculty at the Johns Hopkins Medical School he was an instructor of medicine at the Harvard Medical School. His educational focus includes teaching clinical cardiology and critical care, echocardiography, and electrocardiography to students, residents, and fellows at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Videos Dr. Thomas Metkus. Dr. Metkus is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). His top areas of expertise are Heart Attack, Apoplexy, Arterial Embolism, Heart Bypass Surgery, and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG).

Dr. Ghoreishi is an internationally recognized expert. He brings exceptional skill in open and endovascular aortic repair, including aortic valve repair, Ross operation, valve sparing aortic root repair, innovation in minimally invasive techniques for aortic aneurysm repair, endovascular repair of high risk patients with acute type A or type B aortic dissection, and first-in-human procedures such as the Endo-Bentall repair for aortic dissection. His clinical leadership and innovation have drawn national and international referrals and advanced standards of care in this challenging field. Dr. Ghoreishi has served as Principal Investigator on several federally funded studies through the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) and is a frequent contributor to national guidelines and surgical education symposia. Dr. Ghoreishi is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). His top areas of expertise are Aortic Dissection, Cystic Medial Necrosis of Aorta, Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm, Embolectomy, and Heart Bypass Surgery.

Hamza Aziz’s clinical expertise includes general cardiac surgery, heart bypass operations, aneurysmal dilation, catheter-based technology to treat stenotic or narrowed aortic valves and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR). His research interests include genetic causes of abnormal valve development and aneurysm, Dr. Aziz is published in the fields of cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, pediatric cardiac surgery and breast cancer surgery. Dr. Aziz is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). His top areas of expertise are Aortic Valve Stenosis, Bicuspid Aortic Valve, Collapsed Lung, Heart Bypass Surgery, and Aortic Valve Replacement.

David Zimrin is an Interventional Cardiologist and a Cardiologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Zimrin is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). His top areas of expertise are Coronary Heart Disease, Heart Attack, Gaucher Disease, Heart Bypass Surgery, and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG).

Michael Domanski is an Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist and a Radiologist in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Domanski is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). His top areas of expertise are Coronary Heart Disease, Heart Failure, Pulmonary Veno-Occlusive Disease, Heart Bypass Surgery, and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG).

Bartley Griffith is a Thoracic Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Griffith is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). His top areas of expertise are Hemolysis, Aortic Valve Stenosis, Aortic Regurgitation, Embolectomy, and Aortic Valve Replacement.

Brian Bethea is a Thoracic Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Bethea is rated as an Advanced provider by MediFind in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). His top areas of expertise are Mitral Valve Regurgitation, Aortic Valve Stenosis, Mitral Stenosis, Aortic Valve Replacement, and Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR).

Dr. Jeffrey C. Trost is an associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine as well as director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. His research there focuses on cardiac disease and cardiovascular medicine. He is also currently deputy director of clinical activities at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. Dr. Trost earned his undergraduate degree at Princeton University and medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He completed a residency at the University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine where he was chief resident from 1999-2000. He was an assistant professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern School of Medicine and an interventional cardiovascular fellow at Brown University before joining the Johns Hopkins faculty in 2005. Dr. Trost was most recently recognized with the 2016 Hopkins Medicine Clinical Recognition Award for Quality and Safety and the 2016 Hopkins Cardiology Fellows’ Teaching Award. Dr. Trost is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). His top areas of expertise are Heart Attack, Apoplexy, Arterial Embolism, Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG), and Heart Bypass Surgery.

Rawn Salenger is a Thoracic Surgeon in Towson, Maryland. Dr. Salenger is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). His top areas of expertise are Mitral Valve Regurgitation, Aortic Valve Stenosis, Coronary Heart Disease, Heart Bypass Surgery, and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG).

Joel Price is a Thoracic Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Price is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). His top areas of expertise are Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD), Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm, Aortic Dissection, Heart Valve Repair, and Thrombectomy.

Howard Massey is a Thoracic Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Massey is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). His top areas of expertise are Cystic Medial Necrosis of Aorta, Aortic Dissection, Cardiogenic Shock, Heart Transplant, and Heart Bypass Surgery.

Mukta Srivastava is a Cardiologist in Baltimore,, Maryland. Dr. Srivastava is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). Her top areas of expertise are Apoplexy, Heart Attack, Cardiogenic Shock, Heart Bypass Surgery, and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG).

Douglas Anderson is a General Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Anderson is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). His top areas of expertise are Aortic Valve Stenosis, Cardiogenic Shock, Cardiac Tamponade, Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR), and Aortic Valve Replacement.

Conor Hynes is a General Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Hynes is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). His top areas of expertise are Gastrostomy and Heart Bypass Surgery.

Leonid Belyayev is a General Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Belyayev is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). His top areas of expertise are Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Surgery and Heart Bypass Surgery.

Brian Englum is a Pediatric Surgeon and a General Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Englum is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). His top areas of expertise are Hereditary Spherocytosis, Post-Splenectomy Syndrome, Gastroschisis, Splenectomy, and Lung Transplant. Dr. Englum is currently accepting new patients.

Adil Haider is a General Surgeon in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Haider is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG). His top areas of expertise are Diastrophic Dysplasia, Appendicitis, Low Blood Pressure, Small Bowel Resection, and Appendectomy.