Structural Heart Center

Speaker(s): Karen Gersch, MD

Dr. Karen Gersch, Robotic Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Georgia Heart Institute, sits down with Dr. Sloane Guy, Director of Minimally Invasive Robotic Cardiac Surgery, to discuss the benefit of robotic heart surgery for patients and the collaborative efforts between the entire care team to achieve optimal outcomes.

Speaker(s): Ronnie Ramadan, MD

Dr. Ramadan from Georgia Heart Institute presents a live case of a 92-year-old female patient receiving a percutaneous mitral valve replacement from the cath lab.

Speaker(s): Thomas Guy

Dr. Guy from Georgia Heart Institute gives a front row seat to a robotic mitral valve case with incredible visual quality and unmatched expertise as he operates on a fellow United States Marine Corps patient.

Speaker(s): Thomas Guy

T. Sloane Guy, MD, MBA, FACS, FACC, presents the May 2023 edition of Georgia Heart Institute’s Cardiovascular Grand Rounds. Dr. Guy serves as the Director of Minimally Invasive and Robotic Cardiac Surgery at Northeast Georgia Physicians Group (NGPG) the cardiovascular and thoracic surgery service line of Georgia Heart Institute. Dr. Guy served three tours as an active-duty U.S. Army trauma surgeon, twice in Afghanistan and once in Iraq. He received a Bronze Star Medal and many other combat awards during his service. After finishing his time in the service, Dr. Guy cared for patients at renowned healthcare organizations, including Temple University Health System, Weill Cornell Medical Center, and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He’s also an award-winning physician, having been named a “Top Doc” by Philadelphia magazine and U.S. News & World Report. Dr. Guy is the first robotic cardiac surgeons to perform minimally invasive robotic heart surgeries for Northeast Georgia Health System.
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Karthik Ramaswamy, MD, is returning home to north Georgia and rejoining the electrophysiology program he started nearly two decades ago. A native of Smyrna, Georgia, Dr. Ramaswamy was director of the electrophysiology laboratory at Georgia Heart Institute from 2004 to 2011. He received his training in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, Texas.

Heart surgeries that used to require long incisions and months of recovery can now be performed in Gainesville through tiny 8-millimeter incisions – about the diameter of an ink pen – with much faster recovery times. Georgia Heart Institute’s surgeons at Northeast Georgia Physicians Group (NGPG) Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery are now offering minimally-invasive, robotic heart surgery, giving patients in the area more access to much-needed, state-of-the-art procedures.

Glen A. Henry, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine and prominent interventional cardiologist at Yale University, has accepted a new role at the Georgia Heart Institute in Gainesville, Ga. A faculty member since 1998, Dr. Henry served as the Director of Complex Coronary Interventions in the Interventional Cardiology Program at Yale.