Peter Pastuszko MD

Peter Pastuszko, MD, is the Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and the Director of Pediatric Cardiovascular Services at the Mount Sinai Health System and Co-Director of the Children's Heart Center at the Mount Sinai Kravis Children's Hospital. He has extensive experience in treating the entire spectrum of congenital heart disease, from newborn to adult congenital, having performed several thousand successful surgeries over the course of his career. Chief of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery and Director of Pediatric Cardiovascular Services, Mount Sinai Health System.

Dr. Pastuszko has expertise in the surgical treatment of complex neonatal heart defects, including Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS), Transposition of Great Arteries (TGA), Truncus Arteriosus, Ebstein’s Anomaly, and many others. He has extensive experience, with a high success rate, performing some of the most complex neonatal surgical procedures such as the Norwood operation, neonatal Ross procedure, and neonatal Ebstein’s repair. In the five years prior to his move to Mount Sinai, he performed more than a thousand operations for congenital heart disease. In addition to treating newborns, Dr. Pastuszko is also experienced in the area of adult congenital, thoracic, and vascular surgery.