{"id":6516,"date":"2011-07-12T08:27:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T13:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=6516"},"modified":"2019-02-26T20:13:12","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T01:13:12","slug":"kevin-accola-florida-md-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2011\/07\/12\/kevin-accola-florida-md-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"Surgeon Spotlight: After 7,000 Surgeries, Dr. Kevin Accola&#8217;s Heart Valve Specialty Is Praised By Patients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s an honor\u00a0to shine our surgeon spotlight on Dr. Kevin Accola, a leading heart valve surgeon who practices at the Florida Hospital Cardiovascular Institute.<\/p>\n<p>I first met Dr. Accola in 2008. I called Dr. Accola after several of his patients emailed me their fantastic success stories. During our chat, I quickly learned that Dr. Accola is a super nice guy and a very accomplished surgeon. As you can read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Kevin-Accola-Orlando-Florida.php\">Dr. Accola&#8217;s surgeon profile<\/a>, he has performed over 7,400 cardiac procedures and over 2,400 heart valve operations. Mitral valve repair is one of Dr. Accola&#8217;s specialties.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/odgsjmaiaYo\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, I have become very familiar with many of Dr. Accola&#8217;s patients including Donna Wilson, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2010\/04\/10\/aortic-valve-replacement-reoperation-accola\/\" target=\"_self\">Scott Niemen<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/journals\/user\/mistibluday\" target=\"_self\">Misti Blue<\/a> and Denise Ring. Dr. Accola&#8217;s patients often use words like &#8220;warm&#8221;, &#8220;calm&#8221;, &#8220;humble&#8221;, &#8220;caring&#8221; and &#8220;confident&#8221; to describe his personality.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Duane Hunt, a recent mitral valve repair patient, recently shared with me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"\/Images\/accola-hunt-mitral-valve.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"319\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Accola is also admired by his peers. During a recent, international cardiothoracic conference, another heart valve surgeon said to me, &#8220;Surgeons aspire to be like Dr. Accola. He is an <em>incredible<\/em> surgeon and an <em>incredible<\/em> person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to being a great doctor &#8212; who has trained surgeons across the United States, South America and Asia &#8212; Dr. Accola is married with two children.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/surgeons\/dr-Kevin-Accola-Orlando-Florida.php\">If you would like to learn more about Dr. Accola and his patients, please click here<\/a>. You can also call Beverly, his clinic coordinator, at (866) 306-9873.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks to Dr. Accola and his team at the Florida Hospital Cardiovascular Institute for all of their support of this patient and caregiver community. Dr. Accola&#8217;s pursuit of healthy hearts is extraordinary!<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-surgeons-clinics"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}