Hari Mallidi, MD, FRCSC, FACS, is joining Jackson Health System as the leader of heart surgery programs system wide. In this new role, Dr. Mallidi will serve as system chief of cardiac surgery, program director of heart transplantation and mechanical circulatory support at the Miami Transplant Institute, and director of the Jackson Heart Institute. Dr. Mallidi, who begins mid-November, will also be a member of the faculty at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
Dr. Mallidi has worked at some of the nation’s leading health systems, most recently Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a renowned teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School in Boston. There, Dr. Mallidi served as the clinical director of the Cardiac Surgery Service, as well as section chief for Heart Failure Surgery, Advanced Lung Disease and Transplantation. Dr. Mallidi was a senior surgeon in the Collaborative Center for Advanced Heart Disease, and executive director for ECMO at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where he has worked since 2015.
Prior to his role at Harvard, Dr. Mallidi held the Lester and Sue Smith Chair of Surgery, and he was Chief of the Division of Transplant and Assist Devices at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. His roles there included serving as director of adult heart transplantation and co-director of the Advanced Heart Disease Center of Excellence at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center, and director of the Center for Cardiac Support at the Texas Heart Institute.
