Faisal Bakaeen, MD, is Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College ofMedicine and the Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Distinguished Chair in theDepartment of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery in the Sydell and Arnold Miller
Family Heart & Vascular Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. He also serves as theDirector of the Coronary Revascularization Center and the Director of Quality andProcess improvement at the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
Cleveland Clinic has been ranked the #1 hospital for cardiology and heart surgery byU.S. News & World Report since 1994.
Prior to that, Dr. Bakaeen was the Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Michael E.
DeBakey VA Medical Center and Professor of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine
in Houston, Texas. He received the distinguished Service Award for his clinical andacademic contribution to Baylor College of Medicine. In the VA system, Dr. Bakaeen
served in multiple leadership positions including Chairing the Surgical Quality Data
Use Group (SQDUG), and serving on the National Surgical Advisory Group.
Specialty interests: Coronary artery bypass surgery, arterial revascularization, valveand aortic surgery, minimally invasive heart valve surgery, and cardiac
reoperations. Dr. Bakaeen has performed more than 5000 heart and valve
surgeries. He is board-certified in surgery and cardiac and thoracic surgery.
Education and Training: Dr. Bakaeen earned his degree in medicine and surgery withhonors from the University of Cambridge School of Medicine, Cambridge, UK, andcompleted his postgraduate training at the University of Cambridge School ofMedicine Teaching Hospitals. He served a residency in general surgery at Mayo
Clinic, Rochester, Minn., followed by a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at Baylor
College of Medicine, Houston.
Publications and Speaking: Dr. Bakaeen has been published extensively in medicaljournals, authoring or co-authoring more than 280 papers related to his research incardiac and valvular disease in addition to numerous book chapters. He haspresented his research findings at more than 100 medical meetings, including theAmerican Association for Thoracic Surgery, American College of Cardiology,
American Heart Association, and is frequently invited to serve as a discussion
moderator at major medical meetings across the United States and abroad.
Clinical Trials: Dr. Bakaeen has been the National PI and local PI for multiple nationaland international cardiovascular trials that are funded by government and industry.
He also serves in leadership positions in those trials including the REGROUP, ROOBY,and ROMA trials in which he is a member of the Steering Committee.
Service and Teaching: Dr. Bakaeen has received the Distinguished Service Award andThe Fulbright Jaworski Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award from Baylor College ofMedicine. He has mentored dozens of residents and medical students throughout
his career.
National Professional Associations: Dr. Bakaeen belongs to many professionalsocieties and holds (or has held) leadership positions including: Co-Chair of theAATS Clinical Practice and Standards Committee, President, Association of VASurgeons, Chair, Society of Thoracic Surgeons Workforce on Evidence Based Surgery,Councilor, The Southern Thoracic Surgical association, Chair, Publications Committee,
Association for Academic Surgery (AAS).