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Faisal Bakaeen, MD

Professor of Surgery and Director of Coronary Center
Cleveland Clinic

Faisal Bakaeen, MD, is Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and the Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Distinguished Chair in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He serves as the Surgical Director of the Coronary Center at the Heart Vascular and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic.
Previously, Dr. Bakaeen was the Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, and the Chair of the VA Surgical Quality Data Use Group and a member of the Surgical Advisory Board that oversaw the clinical operations at all 44 VA cardiac surgery centers. He was Past-President of the Association of VA Surgeons;
He is currently the Co-Chair of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery Clinical Practice and Standards Committee.
Dr. Bakaeen runs a busy clinical practice and has performed over 5000 cardiac surgeries.

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