Dr. Marc Pelletier's Credentials

Accepting New Patients

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Biography

Dr. Marc Pelletier is the Chief of Cardiac Surgery at University Hospitals and Professor of Surgery at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He is the Heart Surgery Director at the Harrington Heart and Vascular Institute and the Director of the Transplant Institute. He arrived from Boston, where he was a cardiac surgeon in the division of cardiac surgery at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where he served as the surgical director of the TAVR program. He joined this group in 2016 after 9 years as head of cardiac surgery at the New Brunswick Heart Centre, which followed a period as assistant professor at Stanford University. Dr. Pelletier trained at McGill University in cardiac surgery and Stanford University in cardiothoracic transplantation and ventricular assist devices. His areas of specialty include TAVR procedures, minimally invasive valve surgery, aortic valve and aortic root surgery, surgery for heart failure and minimally invasive coronary bypass surgery. He has authored over 110 peer reviewed publications, with over 120 abstracts accepted at scientific meetings and over 110 invited and local talks. He was chair of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada’s examination board in cardiac surgery from 2014-2018 and in 2018 received the Larry Cohn Outstanding Teacher Award for surgical education. In 2021 he was awarded the Distinguished Surgeon designation at University Hospitals and has been named one of Cleveland’s Top Doctors (2021,22)

Languages

• French
• English

Education

• McGill University (Grad. 2000)
• Dalhousie University (Grad. 1994)
• Stanford University (Grad. 2001)
• Mount Allison University (Grad. 1990)

Areas of Expertise

• Mitral valve stenosis
• Mitral valve prolapse
• Coronary bypass surgery
• Lung transplant
• Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)
• Aortic valve stenosis
• Aortic valve regurgitation
• Coronary artery disease
• Mitral valve regurgitation
• Aortic dissection
• Heart transplant
• Tricuspid valve regurgitation
• Ventricular assist device (VAD)

Awards & Recognitions

• Distinguished Surgeon, University Hospitals 2021
• Specialist of the Year, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
• Teacher of the Year, Cardiac Surgery Brigham and Women's Hospital
• Cleveland's Top Doctors 2022
• Cleveland's Top Doctors 2021