Gilbert Tang

Dr. Tang is currently the Surgical Director of the Structural Heart Program at the Mount Sinai Health System and Professor in the Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York. He obtained his BA from Harvard University and MD from University of Toronto. Dr. Tang completed his cardiac surgery residency training at the University of Toronto and also a Masters of Science there and an MBA at Harvard. He has performed 3500 structural heart interventions (including 500 MitraClips) and is a world expert in the lifetime management after TAVR (commissural alignment, redo TAVR), transcatheter mitral and tricuspid interventions, surgery for failed TAVR/TEER and 4D ICE. He serves on committees in the Heart Valve Collaboratory, PCR, and several clinical trials, and is the Principal Investigator in the global EXPLANT-TAVR, EXPLANTORREDO-TAVR, and CUTTING-EDGE registries. Dr. Tang is a 3-time recipient of the Simon Dack Award for JACC, an Associate Editor in Circulation: Cardiovascular Interventions, a FRCSC, FACC and the first surgeon who is a FSCAI, as well as a member of AATS, STS and AHA. He has published >200 articles, lectured and trained many heart teams around the world, owns a YouTube channel and has over 17,000 followers on Twitter/X and Linkedin. During his spare time he enjoys spending it with his lovely wife Lydia and his 2 boys: Alexander, aged 6 ½ and Julian, aged 3 ½ .