Jupiter Medical Center, one of Newsweek’s 2021 World’s Best Hospitals, appointed Dr. William Kokotos, Cardiovascular Surgeon, to the Robson Heart and Vascular Institute at Jupiter Medical Center. Dr. Kokotos serves as the Surgical Director of the Structural Heart program and brings expertise in a broad range of minimally invasive procedures and open-heart surgery. Before joining Jupiter Medical Center, Dr. Kokotos served as Chief of Cardiac Surgery at NYU Langone Hospital-Long Island. He launched the cardiac program that performed the first percutaneous mitral valve repair on Long Island. Dr. Kokotos brings extensive experience in advanced procedures inclusive of mitral and aortic valve repair/replacement, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), ablation surgery for AFib, coronary artery bypass surgery; surgical treatment of the aortic root, ascending aortic and aortic arch aneurysms; open surgical and percutaneous interventions for thoracic aortic disease, thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) and more.