6 World-Renowned Heart Valve Surgeons Show Support for Our Patient Community!

Written By: Adam Pick, Patient Advocate, Author & Website Founder
Published: July 23, 2021

On behalf of our patient community… Many thanks to Drs. Badhwar, Chikwe, El-Hamamsy, Khan, Shemin and Stelzer for showing their wonderful support of HeartValveSurgery.com. As you can see below, each of these heart valve experts is wearing our new scrub caps around their hospitals.

Here’s Dr. Vinay Badhwar, the Executive Chair of WVU Medicine Heart & Vascular Institute in Morgantown, West Virginia.

 

Dr. Vinay Badhwar

 

That is Dr. Joanna Chikwe, the founding Chair of Cardiac Surgery at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.

 

Dr. Joanna Chikwe

 
 

Yep, that is Dr. Ismail El-Hamamsy, the Director of Aortic Surgery at Mount Sinai Health in New York, New York.

 

 
 

Here is Dr. Junaid Khan, a leading cardiac surgeon from Alta Bates Summit Medical Center in Oakland, California.

 

Dr. Junaid Khan

 
 

That is Dr. Richard Shemin, the Chief of Cardiac Surgery at UCLA Health in Los Angeles, California.

 

Dr. Richard Shemin

 
 

And finally… That is Dr. Paul Stelzer, Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at Mount Sinai Health in New York, New York.

 

Dr. Paul Stelzer

 
 

Many, Many, Many Thanks!!!

Many thanks to Drs. Badhwar, Chikwe, El-Hamamsy, Khan, Shemin and Stelzer for showing their support of the HeartValveSurgery.com community.  For our patients, this means so much seeing so many great people (and amazing heart valve surgeons) publicly amplifying the support of our mission to educate and empower patients!

Click here to see the fun story about the origin of the new HVS scrub cap.

Keep on tickin!
Adam
 

P.S. If any doctors in our community want a HVS scrub cap, please send me an email at adam@heartvalvesurgery.com.


Written by Adam Pick
- Patient & Website Founder

Adam Pick, Heart Valve Patient Advocate

Adam Pick is a heart valve patient and author of The Patient's Guide To Heart Valve Surgery. In 2006, Adam founded HeartValveSurgery.com to educate and empower patients. This award-winning website has helped over 10 million people fight heart valve disease. Adam has been featured by the American Heart Association and Medical News Today.

Adam Pick is a heart valve patient and author of The Patient's Guide To Heart Valve Surgery. In 2006, Adam founded HeartValveSurgery.com to educate and empower patients. This award-winning website has helped over 10 million people fight heart valve disease. Adam has been featured by the American Heart Association and Medical News Today.

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