World Heart Conference
Mediclinic Middle East (MAIR, MCIT)
Dubai
Pr. Olivier JEGADEN is
well-respected cardiac surgeon with outstanding surgical experience and
academic background. In the CHU of
Lyon in France, he has been Professor of Cardiac Surgery since 1996. He was
head of Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular surgery and director of the
institutional programs of transplantation and robotic surgery from 2002 to
2014.
In August 2014, he joined the Cleveland Clinic Abu
Dhabi and he was highly involved in the set up and the development of this new high-tech
and world-class health care center in middle-east. He was named Professor of
Surgery in the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western
Reserve University in Ohio, USA, in May 2015.
Since December 2017, he has joined the Mediclinic
group; he is consultant cardiac surgeon in Mediclinic City Hospital in Dubai
and Head of the Cardio-Thoracic Surgery department in Mediclinic Airport Road
Hospital in Abu Dhabi. He has been affiliated to the MBRU University in Dubai
in February 2019. He is an expert in Total Arterial Revascularization for
Coronary Disease, Valve Repair, Minimally invasive and Robotic Cardiac Surgery,
and Transcatheter Valve Replacement.