Plano, Texas
Dr. J. Michael DiMaio is currently the Chief of Staff for Baylor Scott & White The Heart Hospital, as well as Medical Director for Surgical Services, Research, and Education. He is the Program Director for The Heart Hospital Plano’s Cardio-Thoracic Fellowship and Structural Heart Programs.
Dr. DiMaio received his medical degree from the University of Miami and completed residencies in Internal Medicine, General Surgery, an NIH sponsored post-doc Fellowship in surgical research, and then his Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship all at Duke. He was faculty in both cardiothoracic surgery and biomedical engineering at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center where he was a Full Professor, the Director of Cardiothoracic Surgery Research, and held the Laurence and Susan Hirsch/Centex Distinguished Chair in Heart Disease. Dr. DiMaio is also the co-founder and Chairman of an advanced artificial intelligence powered medical device NASDAQ-listed company, Spectral MD. Dr. DiMaio has been active and held leadership positions in numerous organizations including the AHA, AATS, STS, STSA, ACS and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. He is an active investigator and researcher and was/is on the editorial boards of Annals of Thoracic Surgery, JTCVS and AHJ, as well as a reviewer for many other science journals. He has worked with numerous companies to foster medical device advancement from early stage through advanced clinical trials. He has also managed multiple IRB sponsored clinical trial contracts and has served on numerous agency review boards including the NIH, NSF, AHA, and DOD.
The Institutional Value and Return on Investment of the VVP. View from the C-suite
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