Cardiac Surgery Care
We provide a complete range of specialized heart surgeries to treat your unique cardiac needs.
Cardiac Surgery Care
We provide a complete range of specialized heart surgeries to treat your unique cardiac needs.
State-of-the-Art Heart Surgery for Adults and Children
When you need heart surgery, you want care from a team with experience. Our USC Cardiac Surgery Program experts perform more than 3,000 heart surgeries every year. We are one of the largest programs in the western United States.
We provide a full range of heart surgery options for adults and children. We offer minimally invasive procedures and complex aortic operations and heart transplants. Working together with specialists from cardiology, vascular surgery, anesthesia and critical care, we create a treatment plan just for you.
Transfusion-Free Surgery
Learn about our specialized transfusion-free surgical care services and procedures.
Find out moreWhy Choose Us for Cardiac Surgery
We accept complex cases not treatable elsewhere.
Our minimally invasive options help you avoid open-heart surgery, so you heal faster and with less pain.
Our cardiothoracic surgeons have conducted more than 15,000 open-heart surgeries.
We are recognized as one of the best cardiology, heart and vascular surgery programs in the country by U.S. News & World Report.
You can connect with your care team via in-office appointments, phone calls and video visits.
Our Team
Craig J. Baker, MD
Fernando Fleischman, MD
Cynthia S. Herrington, MD
Ming Lu Huang, MD
Serge S. Kobsa, Phd, MD, PhD
Raymond C. Lee, MD
Demetrios Nectarios Mallios, MD
Sanjeet G. Patel, Phd, MD, PhD
Jonathan A. Praeger, MD
Vaughn A. Starnes, MD
Winfield J. Wells, MD
Amanda Bui, NP-C
Sophia Lam, NP-C
Corinne Rosenberg, PA-C
Kimberly Tran, NP-C
The Strongest Link
Patient Story
I went from someone telling me I had a good chance of dying to Dr. Fleischman saying ‘I got this.’
The Strongest Link
Patient Story
I went from someone telling me I had a good chance of dying to Dr. Fleischman saying ‘I got this.’