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Joseph Lamelas, MD

Lamelas is chief of the division of cardiothoracic surgery, professor of surgery and program director at the University of Miami Health System.
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March 29, 2024
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Q&A: Minimally invasive heart surgery technique reaches 20 years of use

Heart surgery is normally an invasive procedure involving a sternotomy, in which a surgeon cuts open the patient’s breastbone or sternum. Twenty years ago, Joseph Lamelas, MD, thought it did not always need to be that way.