Steve Xydas, M.D., is the chief of the Columbia University Division of Cardiac Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center and co-director of the Mount Sinai Heart Institute.

Dr. Xydas is board certified in cardiac and general surgery and is an expert in minimally invasive, open, endovascular, and transcatheter approaches to a full spectrum of serious cardiac diseases, including valve disease, coronary disease, and aortic aneurysms. He has extensive experience in valve-sparing aortic root repairs and innovative treatments to thoracic aneurysms.

Dr. Xydas is a graduate of Harvard College and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He completed his general surgery and cardiovascular surgery training at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, New York. He spent nearly eight years as a cardiothoracic surgeon at Morristown Medical Center in New Jersey, a U.S. News & World Report “Top 50 Hospital” for cardiac surgery, where he established a prolific, high-volume surgical practice with one of the lowest mortality rates in New Jersey based on published state reports. In addition, doctors chose Dr. Xydas as a “Top Doctor” in New Jersey Monthly magazine in 2015, and was nationally recognized as a Castle Connolly 2016 “Top Doctor.”

Dr. Xydas has extensive research and commercial experience with transcatheter aortic valve replacement using the Sapien and Corevalve devices. He is a co-investigator on clinical trials, including the Corevalve Pivotal, Corevalve SURTAVI, Sapien 3 (Partner 3) TAVR trials and the International Aortic Arch Surgery Study Group. He has participated in many international operative surgical symposia and has lectured on a national and international level.

Dr. Xydas is proficient in all aspects of cardiac surgery. A native of Long Island, New York, he speaks Greek and Spanish.

Specialty:

Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery

*This physician is employed by Mount Sinai Medical Center