To be a cardiac surgeon and have the opportunity to operate on patients with potentially life threatening heart disease carries great responsibility. It also brings tremendous professional satisfaction to see patients recuperate fully from their surgery and return to living their lives in an active, vigorous fashion.
Patient outcomes are how we judge our work and the hallmark of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University has always been the outstanding results as documented by the NYS Department of Health statistics.
To provide this premier level of care requires an integrated team approach by all individuals involved with patients. Top notch cardiologists, anesthesiologists, nurses, and allied health professionals work collaboratively with the surgeons with a level of skill, commitment and integrity that distinguishes Weill Medical College of Cornell University from other institutions.
This is what excites me in going to work each day and why I'm proud to be a member of such an excellent team.
Dr. Mark Adkins, Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The New York Hospital of Queens, is a Professor of Clinical Cardiothoracic Surgery at The New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center and has 20 years of experience in the specialty of adult cardiac surgical procedures.
Dr. Adkins graduated from the George Washington University School of Medicine in 1980 and completed a general surgery residency at New York University/Bellevue/Manhattan VA Hospital, in 1985. After a year of fellowship at The M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, he returned to NYU to complete a Cardiothoracic Surgery fellowship under the direction of world renown cardiac surgeon, Frank C. Spencer, M.D.
Prior to his recruitment to NYP Weill Cornell in 2004, Dr. Adkins held leadership positions at George Washington University as Clinical Chief of Cardiac Surgery and at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia where he was Chairman of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Throughout his career, he has maintained active membership in many professional societies including the American College of Surgeons, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the Frank C. Spencer Surgical Society.
