Lee Health’s Dr. Paul DiGiorgi has been named the incoming president of the Florida Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons. Dr. DiGiorgi was previously secretary/treasurer. He will replace immediate past president Dr. Gregory J. England from Panama City Beach.
Dr. DiGiorgi is part of the largest and longest-running cardiothoracic program in Southwest Florida, Lee Health’s Shipley Cardiothoracic Center.
Dr. DiGiorgi is also the Department of Surgery Chairman. He has been with Lee Health for 15 years and served as the co-chair for Lee Health’s Medical Staff Quality Committee, the chair of the Robotic Steering Committee and Atrial Fibrillation Working Group. He is also a past Lee Memorial Foundation board member.
He received his Doctorate of Medicine from New York University and completed his general surgery residency at the University of Connecticut Health Center, cardiothoracic surgery residency at the New York School of Medicine and his fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.
