David H. Adams

  • PROFESSOR & CHAIR Cardiothoracic Surgery
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Specialty

Certifications

  • Thoracic Surgery

Education

  • MD, Duke University

  • Residency, Surgery
    Brigham and Women's Hospital

  • Residency, Surgery
    Brigham and Women's Hospital

  • Fellowship, Pathology
    Harvard Medical School

  • Fellowship, Cardiothoracic Surg
    Brigham and Women's Hospital

Biography

    Dr. David H. Adams is the Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Mount Sinai Medical Center.

    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 (http://www.mitralvalverepair.org), 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. He 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 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 co-director of the annual American College of Cardiology/American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Heart Valve Disease Summit, and the Director of the biennial AATS Mitral Conclave.

    Dr. Adams is a much sought after speaker both nationally and internationally, and has developed one of the world’s largest video libraries of techniques in valve reconstruction.  He is the author of over 200 publications, holds three patents, 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. He is currently the co-Editor of Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.  He is also the National Co-Principal Investigator of the upcoming FDA pivotal trial of the Medtronic-CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve replacement device.

    Dr. Adams’ clinical interests include all aspects of heart valve surgery, with a special emphasis on mitral valve reconstruction. His major research interests include outcomes related to mitral valve repair, novel mitral valve repair strategies, and transcatheter valve replacement. 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.

    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. Dr. Adams followed that with a fellowship in the Cardiothoracic Unit at Harefield Hospital in London under Professor SirMagdi 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 The Mount Sinai Medical Center since 2002.

    Curriculum Vitae

    In the News
    Dr. Adams discusses mitral-valve repair in The Daily News feature The Daily Check Up.
    View the PDF.

Awards

  • 2010 -
    Best Doctors (2002 - 2010)
    New York Magazine

  • 2009 -
    Award for Achievement in Cardiovascular Science and Medicine
    American Heart Association

  • 2006 -
    Top 100 Minimally Invasive Surgeons
    New York Magazine

  • 2002 -
    Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Endowed Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
    Mount Sinai School of Medicine

  • 2001 -
    Best Oral Presentation, Internation Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery

  • 2000 -
    Honorary Professor of Surgery
    Capital University of Medical Sciences Beijing

  • 1992 -
    Alton Ochsner Research Scholar
    The American Association of Thoracic Surgergy

  • 1987 -
    National Research Service Award
    National Institute of Health

  • 1986 -
    Paul Dudley White Research Fellowship
    American Heart Association

  • 1981 -
    Alpha Omega Alpha

  • 1981 -
    International College of Surgeons Scholarship

Research

  • Outcomes of Mitral Valve Repair
  • Novel Valve Repair Rings
  • Investigation of Ischemic Mitral Regurgitation

Publications

Adams DH, Rosenhek R, Faulk V. Degenerative mitral valve regurgitation: best practice revolution. European Heart Journal 2010 August; 31(16): 1958-1966.

Adams DH, Anyanwu AC. Asymptomatic mitral regurgitation: does surgery save lives?. Nature Reviews in Cardiology 2009 May; 6(5): 330-332.

Adams DH, Anyanwu AC, Chikwe J, Filsoufi F. The Year in Cardiovascular Surgery. J Am Coll Cardiol 2009 June; 53(25): 2389-2403.

Adams DH, Anyanwu AC. Seeking a higher standard for degenerative mitral valve repair: begin with etiology. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2008 Sep; 136(3): 551-556.

Adams DH, Anyanwu AC, Sugeng L, Lang RM. Degenerative mitral valve regurgitation: surgical echocardiography. Curr Cardiol Rep 2008 May; 10(3): 226-232.

Akins CW, Miller DC, Turina MI, Kouchoukos NT, Blackstone EH, Grunkemeier GL, Takkenberg JJ, David TE, Butchart EG, Adams DH, Shahian DM, Hagl S, Mayer JE, Lytle BW, Society of Thoracic Surgeons , American Association for Thoracic Surgery , European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons . Guidelines for reporting mortality and morbidity after cardiac valve interventions. Ann Thorac Surg 2008 Apr; 85(4): 1490-1495.

Adams DH, Anyanwu AC. The cardiologist's role in increasing the rate of mitral valve repair in degenerative disease. Curr Opin Cardiol 2008 Mar; 23: 105-110.

Anyanwu AC, Filsoufi F, Salzberg SP, Bronster DJ, Adams DH. Epidemiology of stroke after cardiac surgery in the current era. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007 Nov; 134(5): 1121-1127.

Anyanwu AC, Adams DH. Etiologic classification of degenerative mitral valve disease: Barlow's disease [review]. Semin Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007 Summer; 19(2): 90-96.

Anyanwu AC, Adams DH. The intraoperative . J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2007 June; 133(6): 1635-1636.

Adams DH, Anyanwu AC, Rahmanian PB, Abascal V, Salzberg SP, Filsoufi F. Large annuloplasty rings facilitate mitral valve repair in Barlow's disease. Ann Thorac Surg 2006 Dec; 82(6): 2096-2100.

Filsoufi F, Rahmanian PB, Anyanwu A, Adams DH. Physiologic basis for the surgical treatment of ischemic mitral regurgitation [review]. Am Heart Hosp J 2006 Fall; 4(4): 261-268.

Adams DH, Anyanwu AC, Rahmanian PB, Filsoufi F. Current concepts in mitral valve repair for degenerative disease. Heart Fail Rev 2006 Sep ; 11(3): 241-257.

Daimon M, Fukuda S, Adams DH, McCarthy PM, Gillinov AM, Carpentier A, Filsoufi F, Abascal VM, Rigolin VH, Salzberg S, Huskin A, Langenfeld M, Shiota T. Mitral valve repair with Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix annuloplasty ring for ischemic mitral regurgitation: early echocardiographic results from a multi-center study. Circulation 2006 Jul 4; 114(1 Suppl): I588-593.

Adams DH, Anyanwu A. Pitfalls and limitations in measuring and interpreting the outcomes of mitral valve repair. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2006 Mar; 131(3): 523-529.

Salzberg SP, Filsoufi F, Anyanwu A, von Harbou K, Gass A, Pinney SP, Carpentier A, Adams DH. High-risk mitral valve surgery: perioperative hemodynamic optimization with. Ann Thorac Surg 2005 Aug; 80(2): 502-506.

Vassiliades TA Jr, Block PC, Cohn LH, Adams DH, Borer JS, Feldman T, Holmes DR, Laskey WK, Lytle BW, Mack MJ, Williams DO, Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS) , American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) , Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI) , American College of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF) , American Heart Association (AHA) . The clinical development of percutaneous heart valve technology: a position statement of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS), and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI). Ann Thorac Surg 2005 May; 79(5): 1812-1818.

Filsoufi F, Salzberg SP, Adams DH. Current management of ischemic mitral regurgitation. Mt Sinai J Med 2005 Mar; 72(2): 105-115.

Adams DH, Filsoufi F. Another chapter in an enlarging book: repair degenerative mitral valves. J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 2003 June; 125(6): 1197-1199.

Industry Relationships

Physicians and scientists on the faculty of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai often interact with pharmaceutical, device and biotechnology companies to improve patient care, develop new therapies and achieve scientific breakthroughs. In order to promote an ethical and transparent environment for conducting research, providing clinical care and teaching, Mount Sinai requires that salaried faculty inform the School of their relationships with such companies.

Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Adams during 2012 and/or 2013. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.

Other Activities: Examples include, but are not limited to, committee participation, data safety monitoring board (DSMB) membership.

  • Edwards Lifesciences; Medtronic, Inc.

Royalty Payments:

  • Edwards Lifesciences; Medtronic, Inc.

Mount Sinai's faculty policies relating to faculty collaboration with industry are posted on our website at http://icahn.mssm.edu/about-us/services-and-resources/faculty-resources/handbooks-and-policies/faculty-handbook. Patients may wish to ask their physician about the activities they perform for companies.

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