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. Lamelas is the Chief of Cardiac surgery and Professor of Surgery at the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. He is board certified in general surgery, cardiac surgery and 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).
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.
Lamelas is fluent in English and Spanish.
Education
Lamelas 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, and his cardiothoracic surgery residency at the SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University in Brooklyn, New York.
References
Living people
American people of Cuban descent
Year of birth missing (living people) American thoracic surgeons Physicians from Miami University of Miami faculty