List of doctors
and surgeons
Almost all of the surgeons on this list have done unroofing, the others said they can do it.
US including Puerto Rico
Arizona
University of Arizona - Dr. Michel Corban, cardiologist Dr. Toshinobu Kazui, surgeon
California
Stanford U. Med. Center
Dr. Ingela Schnittger - Team coordinator, cardiologist - ingela@stanford.edu
Dr. Jack Boyd - Surgeon - jackboyd@stanford.edu
Dr. Jennifer Tremmel - Cardiologist - performs the cardiac catheterization
Donna Mirenda - Nurse coordinator - dmirenda@stanfordhealthcare.org
Joy Smith - Practice care coordinator - jsmith@stanfordhealthcare.org
Joy Bunac - New patient coordinator - *Send records to her and Dr. Schnittger
jbunac@stanfordhealthcare.org
Kaiser Permanente, Santa Clara – Dr. David Scoville
UCSD – Dr. Eugene Golts and one by Dr Steven Howe
Riverside Community Hospital - Dr. Shankha Biswas
Florida
Kendall Medical Center, Miami – Dr. Allan Stewart
Georgia
Georgia Heart Institute, Gainesville – Dr. Sloane Guy
Kentucky
- Dr. Ahmad Khan, Surgeon (Louisville and New Albany, IN)
Idaho
Dr. Robert Farivar, surgeon at St. Alphonsus Medical Center, Boise
Illinois
Univ. of Chicago – Dr Balkhy, robotic-assisted; contact assistant Elisa.Villalobos@uchospitals.edu
Ohio
Cleveland Clinic – surgeon Dr. Gosta Pettersson, see also cardiologist Dr. Joanna Ghobrial and/or Dr. Patrick Collier
Maryland
MedStar Health – Baltimore – cardiologists Dr. Arjun Kanwal and Ankit Shah
Michigan
Spectrum Health Butterworth Hospital – Dr. Marzia Leacche
Minnesota
Mayo Clinic – Rochester – cardiologist Dr. Prasad, surgeons Dr. Hartzel Schaff and/or Dr. Joseph Dearani
Missouri
Barnes Jewish Hospital - Dr. Kunal Kotkar, surgeon
New York
St. Francis Hospital, The Heart Center, Long Island, New York City - Dr. Newell Robinson
Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center - surgeon Dr. Hiroo Takayama
New Jersey
Robert Wood Johnson Hospital, New Brunswick – surgeon Hirohisa Ikegami
Cooper University Hospital, Camden - surgeon Dr. Jeffrey Ogbara
Valley Hospital, Ridgewood - surgeon Dr. Paul Burns, cardiologist Dr. John Brown at Morristown Medical Center
Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh – Dr. Johannes Bonatti
Tennessee
Ascension St. Thomas West, Nashville – surgeon Dr. Ashok Babu (robotic), cardiologist Dr. Jimmy Kerrigan
Texas
Seton Heart Institute, Round Rock/Austin - Dr. Tannon Carroll, cardiologist
Texas Children’s Hospital – surgeon Dr. Jeffrey Heinle
University of Texas – Medical Branch (Galveston) – surgeon Dr. Gal Levy
Memorial Hermann - Dr. Danny Ramzy
Utah
Intermountain Health Care - Dr. Stephen McKellar
Washington
Virginia Mason Heart Institute - surgeon Dr. Robert Moraca
Wisconsin
Froedtert & the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee – Surgeon Dr. Lyle Joyce and cardiologist Dr. Pedro Lozano
Univ. of Wisconsin – Surgeon Dr. Andreas DiBiasi (trained with Dr. Boyd at Stanford)
Puerto Rico
Mayaguez Medical Center - Dr. Garcia Rinaldi
Outside the US
Australia
Surgeon Dr. Andrie Stroebel, Gold Coast
Belgium
Surgeon Dr. Mark Le Meir at UZ Brussels
Surgeon Dr. Jan Nijs - CHU Tivoli, La Louviere
Canada
Surgeon Dr. Ralph Edwards, Toronto General Hospital
Colombia
Dr. Nestor Sandoval – Fundacion Cardioinfantil, Instituto de Cardiologia, Bogota
Egypt
Dr. Abdallah Mohamed Nosair – Cairo
Dr. Ahmed Helmy - Cairo
India
Dr. Raghu M G, Narayana Health, Bangalore - Surgeon
Mexico
Coral Serrano Arroyo, Denisse Guzmán Ramírez, Eva del Carmen Palacios García
UMAE Hospital de Cardiología No. 34, IMSS. Ciudad de México, México
Panama
Dr. Manuel Ochoa - Pacifica Salud (top-notch hospital affiliated with Johns Hopkins University)
Pakistan
Dr. Tauqeer Akbar at Medikay Cardiac Centre, Islamabad
Singapore
Dr. Theodoros Kofidis National University Heart Center
Spain
Dr. Crespo and Dr. Aramendi, Hospital de las Cruces, Barakaldo, Basque Country, Spain
Turkey
Dr. Ihsan Bakir, Istanbul University ihsanbak@yahoo.com
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/23135676_Supracoronary_myotomy_for_myocardial_bridges_in_the_setting_of_hypertrophic_cardiomyopathy_Off-pump_experience
UAE
Dr. Pradeep Nair, Aster Hospital, Al Qusais
https://www.khaleejtimes.com/supplements/aster-hospital-treats-you-well?fbclid=IwAR2j8RknPFa-pJnK8u0T6Ef24WB6UR-1O7a0EfMNWAMqhPxSIGJlp-DytB0
Dr. Johannes Bonatti did robotic unroofing at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. It looks like he is in Austria now, but another doctor there can likely do the same surgery.
https://www.clevelandclinicabudhabi.ae/en/media-center/news/pages/abu-dhabi-surgeons-complete-middle-easts-first-robotic-surgery-for-rare-heart-condition.aspx
UK
Dr Venkatachalam Chandrasekaran at Cromwell Hospital, London and St. George’s Hospital, Tooting, London
*Unroofing operation was sometimes called “releasing” there
Cardiologist - Dr. Sukh Nijjer, London https://drnijjer.com/
Scotland
Surgeon Ed Peng - Royal Hospital for Children and Golden Jubilee National Hospital, Glasgow
Cardiologist Ciprian Dospinescu - NHS Grampian, Aberdeen