Associate Professor Theodoros Kofidis is a minimally invasive heart surgeon. He promotes and offers a wide range of less invasive, small-incision and keyhole access procedures for blocked coronary arteries and heart valves. He specifically avoids opening the chest bone, whenever indicated. He also provides expertise in off-pump bypass surgery, i.e. without the use of heart lung machine and stopping the heart.

He has trained in some of the world's leading institutions (Rochester, NY/Texas heart, Houston/Hannover Germany, Stanford, CA, USA).

A/Prof Kofidis' specialties are minimally invasive procedures for the repair/replacement of the heart valves, which he has introduced into the robotic cardiac surgery programme he started at the NUHS. These procedures are his preferred approach to minimize trauma and stress to the patient, shorten length of stay and to achieve better cosmetic result. He also carries out surgeries in off-pump technique, without necessitating the heart lung machine or stopping the heart. He is the first to have implanted and helped children survive and recover (bridge-to-recover) from an artificial heart device in Singapore and the region, and the first to have successfully treated patients with heart failure due to H1N1 using artificial circulation support. He has introduced noval heart-re-shaping surgery for advanced state of disease.

A/Prof Kofidis has a considerable contribution to heart-related research. His innovations, discoveries and his patents in Heart Surgery, published in more than 100 articles in international journals, have earned him prestigious international awards, and the honor of invited lecturer at Bill Gates Research Centre, the American Medical Association, and the FDA in the USA. He and Prof Lee Chuen Neng have founded a new initiative to promote research and innovative technology in surgery (I.R.I.S.). In April 2012, A/Prof Kofidis was part of the pioneering group of surgeons to perform Robotic Cardiac Surgery in NUHCS. He is a Cardiothoracic Surgeon and Associate Professor with the Dept of Surgery, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine. His vision is to strengthen Singapore's role as a surgical hub by cutting edge, less traumatic heart surgery.

 
 
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