Tarek Absi, M.D.
Associate Professor of Cardiac Surgery
Department of Cardiac Surgery
MCE-North Tower
1215 21st Avenue South
Room / Suite
Suite 5025
Nashville
Tennessee
37232
Phone
Phone: (615) 322-2318
Fax
Fax: (615) 343-6184
Education:
- M.D., American University of Beirut 1995
- B.S., Biology, American University of Beirut 1991
Post Graduate Training:
- General Surgery, North Shore University Hospital, NYU school of Medicine, Manhasset, NY 2000
- Cardiac Surgery Research Fellow, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 2002
- Cardiac Surgery Residency, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 2005
- Cardiac Surgery Fellowship, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 2006
Research Studies:
- Molecular biology cardiac valvular diseases
- Clinical outcomes research
Clinical Interests:
- Minimally invasive aortic and mitral valve surgery.
- Off- pump coronary revascularization
- Minimally invasive coronary revascularization
- Aortic aneurysms
- Valvular endocarditis