Tom Nguyen, M.D., is the director of minimally invasive valve surgery, chief medical executive of Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, Barry T. Katzen Medical Director Endowed Chair, and a professor of surgery at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. He is an internationally recognized minimally invasive heart surgeon and believes that small incisions make a big difference.
Dr. Nguyen graduated from Rice University and then worked in Switzerland at the World Health Organization. Although he was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship, he decided to pursue medicine at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Dr. Nguyen completed his surgery training at Stanford, where he received the Outstanding ICU Award and the Intern of the Year Award. He then completed a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at Columbia University as well as a transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) fellowship at Emory. Recognizing his good fortune, he vows to pay it forward. He strives every day to deserve the privilege of practicing medicine and is committed to treating patients like family.
