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David H. Adams is an American cardiac surgeon and the Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The Mount Sinai Hospital.〔(Profile", Mount Sinai Hospital ) retrieved March 13, 2013〕 Dr. Adams is a recognized leader in the field of heart valve surgery and mitral valve reconstruction. As Program Director of the Mount Sinai (Mitral Valve Repair Center ), he has set national benchmarks with >99% degenerative mitral valve repair rates,〔(near 100% repair rate for mitral valve prolapse is achievable in a reference center: implications for future guidelines", PubMed ) retrieved March 19, 2013〕 while running one of the largest valve repair programs in the United States. Dr. Adams is the co-inventor of 2 mitral valve annuloplasty repair rings (the Carpentier-McCarthy-Adams IMR ETlogix Ring〔(Lifesciences", Edwards Lifesciences ) retrieved March 13, 2013〕 and the Carpentier-Edwards Physio II Annuloplasty Ring,〔(Lifesciences", Edwards Lifesciences ) retrieved March 13, 2013〕 and is a senior consultant with royalty agreements with Edwards Lifesciences. He is also the inventor of the Tri-Ad Adams Tricuspid Annuloplasty ring with a royalty agreement with Medtronic.〔(Medtronic ) retrieved March 13, 2013〕 He is a co-author with Professor Alain Carpentier of the benchmark textbook in mitral valve surgery Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery.〔(Reconstructive Valve Surgery", Elsevier Health ) retrieved March 13, 2013〕 He is also the National Co-Principal Investigator of the upcoming FDA pivotal trial of the Medtronic-CoreValve transcatheter aortic valve replacement device.〔(FDA Trial ) retrieved March 13, 2013〕 ==Biography== Adams is a cardiac surgeon at the The Mount Sinai Hospital, specializing in mitral valve repair. He is the author of over 200 publications,〔("PubMed" ) retrieved March 13, 2013〕 holds three patents(Patent number (7.959.673 ), (6.660.265 ) and (6.540.781 )) and is recognized as a leading surgeon scientist and medical expert, serving on the Editorial Boards of several medical journals, including the Annals of Thoracic Surgery and Cardiology. Adams is a much sought after speaker both nationally and internationally,〔(Events", Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center ) retrieved March 13, 2013〕 and has developed one of the world’s largest video libraries of techniques in valve reconstruction.〔(Library", Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center ) retrieved March 13, 2013〕 He is co-director of the annual American College of Cardiology/American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) Heart Valve Disease Summit,〔(Valve Summit", AATS ) retrieved March 13, 2013〕 and the Director of the biennial AATS Mitral Conclave.〔(Conclave", AATS ) retrieved March 13, 2013〕 He received his undergraduate and medical education at Duke University and completed his internship and residency in general and cardiothoracic surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital and at Harvard Medical School. Adams followed that with a fellowship in the Cardiothoracic Unit at Harefield Hospital in London under Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub. In addition, he completed a two-year research fellowship under Professor Morris Karnovsky in the Department of Pathology at Harvard Medical School. He later served at Brigham and Women's Hospital as the Associate Chief of Cardiac Surgery and Director of the Brigham Primate Xeno-transplant Laboratory. He has been Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Mount Sinai Hospital since 2002.〔(H. Adams CV", Mount Sinai )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「David H. Adams」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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