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The Christine E. Lynn Heart Institute at Boca Raton Community Hospital in Boca Raton has announced the hiring of Arthur H. Katz, M.D. Dr. Katz will work with Lead Open Heart Surgeon James Morris, M.D., to offer open heart surgery for the first time in the history of the hospital.

Dr. Katz comes to Boca Raton Community Hospital from a private practice in Palm Beach Gardens where he was a cardiothoracic surgeon and partner. He completed his training at NYU Medical Center. Special interests in adult cardiac surgery include off pump coronary artery bypass (OPCAB), mitral valve repair, left ventricular remodeling for congestive heart failure and ablative procedures for atrial fibrillation. In the last few years, Dr. Katz has performed over 1,000 OPCAB surgeries and approximately 75 off pump pulmonary vein isolations