Jorge M. Balaguer, MD — Academic Profile

  • Associate Professor of Surgery

Certification

  • Cardiac Surgery (Argentine College of Cardiovascular Surgeons)

Education

Medical School
  • University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine (1979)
Residency Training
  • General Surgery, Finochietto Hospital (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Fellowship Training
  • Adult Cardiac Surgery, University of Massachusetts Medical School
  • Adult Cardiac Surgery, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

Affiliated Specialty Centers

Clinical Interests/Expertise

  • Multi-Arterial Bypass Surgery
  • Off-Pump Coronary Bypass
  • Hybrid Coronary Revascularization (Bypass + Coronary Stenting; see FAQs)
  • Minimally Invasive Coronary Surgery
  • Robotic Assisted Coronary Surgery
  • Trans-Myocardial Laser Revascularization
  • Reoperative Coronary Surgery
  • Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR)
  • Surgery for Infective Endocarditis
  • Minimally Invasive and Robotic Cardiac Surgery
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Contact Information

Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Department of Surgery, Health Sciences Center T19-080
Stony Brook Medicine
Stony Brook, NY 11794-8191
Tel: 631-444-1820
Fax: 631-444-8963

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Although my practice encompasses all aspects of adult cardiac surgery, I have focused on and developed a higher expertise in the management of patients with complex ischemic heart disease.

Previous positions as chief of cardiac surgery in the Nashville VA Medical Center, chairman of the hybrid OR room at Vanderbilt University, and co-director of the Ischemic Cardiomyopathy Group at the Italian Hospital of Buenos Aires have added a deeper dimension to my expertise in all aspects of my practice: clinical, academic, research, and teaching.

I completed all my cardiac surgery education in premier institutions of the United States: University of Massachusetts Medical School and Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School. I have an international board certification in adult cardiac surgery