Thoracic surgeon Erik Sylvin, M.D., has joined Holy Cross Medical Group.
Prior to joining Holy Cross Health, Dr. Sylvin was an attending physician with Florida Heart and Vascular Center at JFK Medical Center in Atlantis, FL. He was previously an attending physician at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Pennsylvania and at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Presbyterian.
As an undergrad at Brandeis University in Massachusetts, Dr. Sylvin played in four NCAA tournaments as a member of the varsity baseball team. He then earned a Master of Science in Biological Science, before earning his medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia. He completed his residency in general surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center in Manhattan. Dr. Sylvin also completed his fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, an additional fellowship in robotic thoracic surgery at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan and a research fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, NY.
