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, effective this fall.

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.

Nguyen will follow Barry T. Katzen, M.D., founder of Baptist Health Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute as Chief Medical Executive for the Institute. Katzen will remain with Baptist Health as Chief Medical Innovation Officer and emeritus Founding Chief Medical Executive.

Dr. Nguyen was born in Vietnam and as an immigrant, perseverance embodies his life philosophy. He went to college at Rice University, medical school at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, general surgery residency at Stanford University, cardiothoracic fellowship at Columbia Presbyterian, and he completed a transcatheter fellowship at Emory University.