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UI Heart and Vascular Center

da Vinci Surgical System

Department of Surgery

Holden Comprehensive Cancer Center

University of Iowa Children's Hospital

Robert Saeid Farivar, MD PhD

Assistant Professor,
Division of Adult Cardiac Surgery

Director of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
robert-farivar@uiowa.edu

Medical School:
Boston University, School of Medicine,
M.D., Ph.D., Boston, Massachusetts 1998

Internship:
Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven,
Connecticut 1998-1999 (General Surgery)

Residency:
Harvard-Brigham & Women's Hospital,
Boston, Massachusetts, 2003-2006
(Categorical Resident in Surgery)

Harvard-Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, 2005-2006
(Chief Resident in General Surgery)

Fellowship:
Harvard-Brigham & Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, 2006-2008
(Chief Resident in Cardiac Surgery)

Harvard – Children’s Hospital Boston, Massachusetts, 2008, (Affiliated Resident)

Certification:
American Board of Thoracic Surgery

Professional Affiliations:
Society of Thoracic Surgery

Honors and Awards:
National Research Service Award, NIH, 2002-2003

Alley-Sheridan Scholarship, American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, 2005

Clinical Interests:
Adult cardiac surgery
Valvular surgery
Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery
Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery
Transplantation

Research Interests:
Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery
Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery

Links of Interest:
Society of Thoracic Surgeons

CTS Net Information

Minimally Invasive Mitral Repair: 6-8 cm Lower Hemisternotomy

Minimally Invasive AVR