Dr. Stewart received his General Surgery training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and then specialized in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Columbia University Medical Center. Following his fellowship, he completed advanced training in Heart Failure and Heart/Lung Transplant Surgery at Columbia University. He joined the faculty at New York/Presbyterian Hospital from January 2005 until November 2013. He was then recruited to lead the Center for Aortic Disease at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York, where he was promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery. Additionally, he also served as the Medical Director for Mount Sinai International. In the role he consulted throughout the world in cardiovascular programmatic development. In 2018, he was recruited to Florida as the Chief of Cardiac Surgery of the Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute at Baptist Health South Florida, where he expanded the clinical practice and doubled the market share, before moving to HCA Healthcare in 2019. He is currently the Medical Director and Chief of Cardiac Surgery at HCA Healthcare East Florida Division.
His clinical research interest in Aortic Surgery and transcatheter valves, have generated over 50 manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals. He is a peer reviewer for the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, BMJ, and JTCVS and was a site-principal investigator of many seminal clinical TAVR trials including PARTNER I, II, SURTAVI, and SENTINAL. He recently graduated as a member of the inaugural class of the Surgical Leadership Program at Harvard Medical School.
Dr Stewart has operated and/or lectured on six continents in 21 countries. He has been honored in Castle Connelly’s Best Doctors in America and New York Magazines’ Best Thoracic Surgeon’s list for the past eleven consecutive years and is a member of the American Association of Thoracic Surgeons, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, American College of Surgeons, and American College of Cardiologists.
He defines himself primarily, as a teacher, which is greatly facilitated by being ambidextrous. He trained over twenty-four physicians in aortic surgery; eleven of which currently hold the title of Director of Aortic Surgery in various departments throughout the United States, Japan, and Israel.
When not operating, he espouses heart healthy living and is a cyclist, marathon runner, and triathlete.
He was a featured surgeon in the medical documentary: NY MED, appeared on the Rachael Maddow show, FoxNews, Good Day NY, the Today show, the NY Times, the NY Daily News, and is the subject of the book, Barefoot in New York.
Credentials
Place of Birth: Belleville, New Jersey, USA
Date of Birth: July 11, 1969
Licensures:
DEA BS6446391
New York 224040
New Jersey 25MA08333600
Florida ME135932
Board Certification:
American Board of Surgery #47885 Date: 2/3/03
American Board of Thoracic Surgery #7429 Date: 6/4/05
Re-Certification: December 2016
Education:
9/1/87-5/30/91 St. Peters University
8/28/91-5/25/95 UMDNJ-Rutgers School of Medicine MD
9/10/18-9/15/19 Harvard Medical School/HBS
Social Media Initiatives
Hobbies/Outside Interests
Cycling
Skiing
Swimming
Ironman Triathlon
Honors and Awards
1994 Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
1996 Surgical Scholar Award, University of Pennsylvania 1997 Surgical Scholar Award, University of Pennsylvania 1998 Surgical Scholar Award, University of Pennsylvania 1999 Surgical Scholar Award, University of Pennsylvania
1999 Young Investigator Award
Pennsylvania Association of Thoracic Surgery
1999 Young Investigator Award
Institute of Human Gene Therapy
1999 Vivian Thomas Young Investigator Award
American Heart Association
2000 Surgical Scholar Award
University of Pennsylvania Medical Center
2000 Pennsylvania Association of Thoracic Surgery
2000 Young Investigator Award
Institute of Human Gene Therapy
2000 C. Walton Lillehei Young Investigator Award American Association of Thoracic Surgery
2007 Fellowship Society of Thoracic Surgeons
2008 Fellowship, American College of Surgeons
2010 Fellowship American Association Thoracic Surgeons
2018 Fellowship American. College of Cardiology
2011 Castle Connolly America’s Top Doctors
2011 Castle Connolly Best Doctor’s in NY Metro Area
2011 Castle Connolly Best Doctor’s in New York
2012 Castle Connolly America’s Top Doctors
2012 Castle Connolly Best Doctor’s in NY Metro Area
2013 American Heart Association NYC Physician Excellence
2013 Castle Connelly America’s Top Doctors
2013 Castle Connelly Best Doctors in NY Metro Area
2013 New York Magazine Best Doctors
2014 Castle Connelly America’s Top Doctors
2014 Castle Connelly Best Doctors in NY Metro Area
2015 Castle Connelly America’s Top Doctors
2015 Castle Connelly Best Doctors in NY Metro Area
2016 New York Magazine Best Doctors
2016 Castle Connelly America’s Top Doctors
2016 Castle Connelly Best Doctors in NY Metro Area
2016 New York Magazine Best Doctors
2017 Castle Connelly America’s Top Doctors
2017 Castle Connelly Best Doctors NY Metro Area
2017 New York Magazine Best Doctors
2018 Castle Connelly America’s Top Doctors
2018 Castle Connelly Best Doctors in New York Metro Area
2018 New York Magazine Best Doctors
2019 Castle Connelly America’s Top Doctors
2019 Castle Connelly Best Doctors in New York Metro Area
2020 Castle Connelly America’s Most Honored Doctors
2010 Finisher, New York City Marathon
2010 Finisher, New York City Triathlon
2016 Finisher, Ironman Cozumel, Mexico
2019 Finisher, Ironman Nice, France
2019 Finisher, Miami Marathon
2020 Finisher, Miami. Marathon
ABSTRACTS
- delaTorre A, Stewart A, Holman M, Koneru B. Neutrophils and Ischemia/Reperfusion Injury in Human Liver Transplantation. American Society of Transplant Surgeons (Chicago, IL) 1995
- Stewart AS, Pocchetino A, O’Hara ML, Rosengard BR, Gardner TJ, Acker MA. Surgical Management of LVAD Infections. European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery. (Glasgow, Scotland) Sept 1999
- Stewart AS, Vahedi M, Vavra ML, Gardner TJ, Pochettino A, Acker MA. Treatment of Septicemia in LVAD Patients by Explantation Cardiectomy, and Transplantation. 37th Annual Meeting of The Pennsylvania Association For Thoracic Surgery (Skytop, PA) Sept 1999
- Stewart AS, Zhu HL, Taylor MD, Vijayasarathy C, Sweeney HL, Gardner TJ. Overexpression of Catalase by Adenoviral Mediated Gene Transfer Reduces Myocardial Apoptosis and Infarct Size Following I/RP in Rabbits. 37th Annual Meeting of The Pennsylvania Association For Thoracic Surgery (Skytop, PA) Sept 1999
- Stewart AS, Taylor MD, Zhu HL, Walter GM, Gardner TJ, Sweeney HL. Supporting Myocardial ATP Demand With Novel Sources of High Energy Phosphate. Annual Meeting of The Institute For Human Gene Therapy (Absecan, NJ) October 1999.
- Stewart AS, Crawford C, Sweeney HL, Gardner TJ. Hepatocyte Growth Factor Mediates Therapeutic Coronary Neoangiogenesis. 85th Clinical Congress American College of Surgeons (San Francisco, CA) October 1999
- Stewart AS, Taylor MD, Walter GM, Gardner TJ, Sweeney HL. Viral Gene Transfer of Arginine Kinase Provides a Novel Means of Myocardial Protection. American Heart Association (Atlanta, GA) Nov 1999
- Stewart AS, Walter GM, Barton BA, Gardner TJ. Elimination of Myocardial Stunning With Arginine Kinase. Pennsylvania Muscle Institute Annual Meeting (Philadelphia, PA) Nov 1999
- Stewart AS,O’Hara ML, Pochettino A, Rosengard BR, Gorman RC, Vahedi M, Carboni A, DeNofrio D, Kao A, Goldberg L, Jessup M, Brozena S, Blumberg E, Loh E, Acker MA. Transplantation: A Definitive Treatment For Assist Device Infection. International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation (Osaka, Japan) April 2000
- Stewart AS, Zhu HL, Bish LT, Theiser DM, Gardner TJ, Sweeney HL. Viral Mediated Transfer of Bcl-2 Reduces Post-Infarct Remodeling in the Rabbit. American Association of Thoracic Surgery (Toronto, Canada) May 2000
- Stewart AS, HL Zhu, LT Bish, HL Sweeney, TJ Gardner. Gene Transfer of Arginine Kinase Prevents Ischemic Cell Death. 38th Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Association of Thoracic Surgery (Bermuda) Oct 2000
- S Chatterjee, AS Stewart, LT Bish, HL Sweeney, TJ Gardner. Translational Gene Therapy: Moving From the Benchtop to the Operating Room. 38th Annual Meeting of the Pennsylvania Association of Thoracic Surgery (Bermuda) Oct 2000
- Stewart AS, Bish LT, Chatterjee S, Sweeney, HL, Gardner TJ. Gene Transfer of HGF is Superior to TMMR in Inducing Coronary Neoangiogensis. 86th Annual Meeting of the American College of Surgeons, Surgical Forum (Chicago, Il) Oct 2000
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