Todd Rosengart

Dr. Rosengart has served as a member of PAVmed’s Medical Advisory Board since November 2014. Dr. Rosengart has served as Professor and Chairman of the Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at the Baylor Medical College since November 2012. He also holds the DeBakey-Bard Chair of Surgery, and is Professor of Heart and Vascular Disease at the Texas Heart Institute. He previously served as Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Chairman of Surgery and Co-Director of the Heart Center at The Stony Brook University Medical Center and SUNY-Stony Brook. Prior to that he served as the Owen L. Coon Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Professor of Surgery at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare and Northwestern University and as Associate Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College, Associate Attending Cardiothoracic Surgeon at New York Presbyterian Hospital and Visiting Associate Professor of Surgery at Columbia University.

Dr. Rosengart has served in leadership roles in various professional societies including the American Heart Association, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the American Association of Thoracic Surgery. He serves as editor of Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and has served on the editorial boards of various leading medical journals. Dr. Rosengart has had a productive academic career focused on arteriogenesis and gene therapy. He runs an NIH-funded laboratory in this area, has received over $10 million in research grants and published over 100 peer-reviewed publications. He has played an active role in life sciences innovation, serving as an advisor to various medical device and pharmaceutical companies including Abbott, Arrow, St. Jude, J&J/Ethicon, Astra Zeneca and The Medicines Company. He holds 10 issued patents and has co-founded five companies in the medical device and healthcare IT industries.

Dr. Rosengart completed his general surgical training at New York University Medical Center, served as a Fellow in the Surgery Branch of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute and completed his cardiothoracic surgical training at The New York Hospital at Cornell Medical College. He received additional surgical training at The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street and The Harley Street Clinic, both in London. Dr. Rosengart has been repeatedly recognized as one of America’s Top Doctors in the Castle Connolly Guide. Dr. Rosengart received his B.S. and M.D., both with distinction, from Northwestern University.