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Joseph Lamelas is a Cuban-American cardiothoracic surgeon, working in Miami, Florida, who developed the "Miami method", a technique for minimally invasive approach to aortic valve replacement and repair.[1][2][3][4]
Lamelas is the Chief of Cardiac surgery and Professor of Surgery at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine. He is board certified in general surgery, cardiac surgery, thoracic surgery, and surgical critical care, and is a member of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS).[5][6]
Lamelas had previous appointments at Mount Sinai Medical Center (Miami), Baylor College of Medicine, St. Luke's Hospital (Houston, Texas), and The Texas Heart Institute.[7]
Legal Issues
editOn June 24, 2024, Lamelas was mentioned specifically by the Department of Justice in Medicaid fraud. Specifically, he was named as one of the "three heart surgeons who performed at St. Luke’s - engaged in a regular practice of running two operating rooms at once and delegating key aspects of extremely complicated and risky heart surgeries to unqualified medical residents."[8]
Education
editLamelas completed his Doctor of Medicine degree at Universidad Central del Este in the Dominican Republic, his general surgery residency at the Brooklyn Hospital Center in New York City, and his cardiothoracic surgery residency at the SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, New York.[5]
References
edit- ^ Lamelas, Joseph (January 2015). "Minimally invasive aortic valve replacement: the "Miami Method"". Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery. 4 (1): 71–77. doi:10.3978/j.issn.2225-319X.2014.12.10. ISSN 2225-319X. PMC 4311159. PMID 25694981.
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- ^ "University Of Miami Health System Welcomes Internationally Renowned Cardiac Surgeon, Joseph Lamelas, M.D." BioSpace. Retrieved 2023-06-15.
- ^ "Southern District of Texas | Texas medical center institutions agree to pay $15M record settlement involving concurrent billing claims for critical surgeries | United States Department of Justice". www.justice.gov. 2024-06-24. Retrieved 2024-06-26.