David H. Adams MD, FACC

Dr. Adams is a leader in the field of heart valve surgery and mitral valve reconstruction. As the Marie-Josae and Henry R. Kravis Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery and Program Director of The Mount Sinai Hospital's Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center, he has set national benchmarks with 99% degenerative mitral valve repair rates, while running one of the largest programs in the United States.

He is the co-inventor of 2 mitral valve annuloplasty repair rings (the Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix Annuloplasty Ring and the Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring), and is also the inventor of the Medtronic Tri-Ad Adams Tricuspid Annuloplasty Ring. He is a co-director of the annual American College of Cardiology (ACC)/American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Heart Valve Summit, and the Director of the biennial AATS Mitral Conclave, the largest international meeting in the world focused on mitral valve disease.

Dr. Adams is an acclaimed speaker and educator. He has given over 300 invited lectures around the world and he and his team have developed one of the world largest video libraries of techniques in valve reconstruction. Dr. Adams is also dedicated to teaching surgery throughout the world, and he has performed surgery on patients in China, the Dominican Republic, Germany, Japan, Poland, Thailand, and Viet Nam. He is the President of the Mitral Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to promoting best practice standards in mitral valve disease.