Hiroo Takayama

Hiroo Takayama is the Morris and Rose Milstein Professor of Surgery at Columbia University Medical Center and Vice Chair for Cardiac, Vascular, and Thoracic Surgery at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. After earning his medical degree from the University of Tokyo and completing residencies there and at the University of Washington Medical Center, he pursued a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery. His research focuses on temporary mechanical circulatory support in high-risk cardiac surgery, post-cardiotomy cardiogenic shock, and myocardial ischemia-reperfusion injury, including Toll-like receptor 4 pathways. He has contributed to EACTS/STS/AATS guidelines on mechanical circulatory support and published on aortic dissection and regurgitation. He received the Dwight C. McGoon Award (2012) and was named to New York Magazine's Top Doctors (2016).