Baptist Health South Florida announced it has named Tom C. Nguyen, M.D., Chief Medical Executive and Barry T. Katzen Endowed Chair of Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute.

Dr. Nguyen comes from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), where he is the Charles Schwab Distinguished Professor of Surgery, Co-Director of the Heart and Vascular Center, and Professor and Chief of the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery. At UCSF, he flourished in a productive practice with nearly 300 pump cases/year. While at UCSF, Dr. Nguyen transformed the division of cardiothoracic surgery helping to double the volume in cardiac surgery and set milestones in quality, outcomes, and research. He is an internationally recognized surgeon with expertise in performing high-risk heart operations through the smallest possible incision. He has a particular interest in minimally invasive mitral repair and aortic valve surgery, atrial septal defect (ASD) closures, septal myectomies for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and robotic heart surgery. He is also an expert in transcatheter procedures.