David H. Adams

David H. Adams is an American cardiac surgeon who is the Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis Professor and Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, a post he has held since 2002. He is known for heart valve surgery and mitral valve reconstruction, and directs the Mount Sinai Mitral Valve Repair Center, which reports very high repair rates for degenerative mitral valve disease. He studied at Duke University, trained in general and cardiothoracic surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and completed a fellowship at Harefield Hospital in London under Sir Magdi Yacoub. He co-invented two mitral annuloplasty rings, invented a tricuspid annuloplasty ring, co-authored the textbook Carpentier's Reconstructive Valve Surgery with Alain Carpentier, and serves as national co-principal investigator of a pivotal trial of a transcatheter aortic valve replacement device.