Robert S. Poston

Robert S. Poston is an American cardiac surgeon known for robot-assisted heart surgery and coronary artery bypass surgery. He is described as practising at Mercy-Lourdes Hospital in Paducah, Kentucky, where he is nationally recognized for robot-assisted cardiothoracic surgery, and he earlier served as a cardiac surgeon at the University of Arizona Medical Center in Tucson. One of his research interests, the mechanism of early graft thrombosis, was recognized with a five-year RO1 clinical research grant from the National Institutes of Health running from 2007 to 2012. His page names MIDCAB and coronary artery bypass surgery as his research fields. He was born in Dallas, Texas, in 1967, trained at the University of Texas at Austin and Johns Hopkins Medical School, and held earlier posts at the University of Maryland Medical Center and Boston Medical Center.