Tom C Nguyen, MD

Dr. Nguyen is an internationally recognized minimally invasive heart surgeon who believes small incisions make a big difference. His outcomes score in the top 98.7% in the national STS database. He is Chief Medical Executive of Baptist Health Heart & Vascular Care, Director of Minimally Invasive Surgery, and Barry T. Katzen Endowed Chair at Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, and Professor and Chair of the Department of Cardiovascular Sciences at Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine. As Chief Medical Executive, he oversees cardiac surgery, cardiology, vascular surgery, and interventional radiology across the 12-hospital health system. Trained at Johns Hopkins, Stanford, Columbia, and Emory, he has published nearly 300 peer-reviewed articles.