Dear Monty,
Here's the scoop on Dr. Mihaljevic from the Cleveland Website. Evidently he was at Brigham before Cleveland. His credentials look good. If you do a web search with his name, you will come up with a lot more.
"Mihaljevic , Tomislav , M.D.
Biographical Sketch:
Dr. Tomislav Mihaljevic is an attending surgeon in the Cleveland Clinic Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He is certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and the American Board of Surgery. Dr. Mihaljevic specializes in minimally invasive cardiac surgery, image guided cardiac surgery, robotics in cardiac surgery, heart failure and cardiac transplantation.
A native of Croatia, Dr. Mihaljevic received his medical degree from the Medical School, University of Zagreb, Croatia. He did his internship at the Clinic for Infectious Diseases in Zagreb; he was also an assistant in the Department of Anatomy at the Medical School University in Zagreb. He completed his residency in cardiovascular surgery at the Clinic for Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Zurich, Switzerland, which also granted him a research fellowship in cardiovascular surgery. This was followed by residencies in general and cardiothoracic surgery at the Brigham and Women?s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, where Dr. Mihaljevic became Chief Resident in General Surgery and Chief Resident in Cardiac Surgery. He later became Senior and Chief Resident, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery at Children?s Hospital in Boston.
Prior to his 2004 appointment to the Cleveland Clinic as an attending surgeon in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Dr. Mihaljevic was the Director of Cardiac Surgery Research and an Associate Surgeon in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at Brigham and Women?s Hospital in Boston.
Dr. Mihaljevic held a seven-year academic appointment to Harvard Medical School as a Clinical Fellow in Surgery. He was also Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and Visiting Professor of Surgery at the Medical School, University of Zagreb, Croatia.
He has been on the editorial review board for prestigious medical journals, including The Annals of Thoracic Surgery and the New England Journal of Medicine. He is the author or co-author of numerous articles in medical and peer-reviewed scientific journals, and he is the first author of a textbook chapter on the pathophysiology of aortic valve disease.
Dr. Mihaljevic?s research has focused on minimally invasive cardiac surgery, real-time intraoperative functional imaging for the assessment of myocardial injury and graft patency during beating heart surgery, intracardiac imaging systems, and analysis of beating heart intracardiac surgery, among other research studies. He has been invited to present his research at medical symposia and conferences worldwide.
Dr. Mihaljevic is a member of the American College of Chest Physicians, the American Heart Association, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation and the American Medical Association."
and I think that I need surgery before that. Has anyone ever used Dr. Tomislav Mihaljevic at the Cleveland Clinic or Know of him?
