Dr. Mark Adkins, Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at The New York Hospital of Queens, is a Professor of Clinical Cardiothoracic Surgery at The New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center and has 20 years of experience in the specialty of adult cardiac surgical procedures.
Dr. Adkins graduated from the George Washington University School of Medicine in 1980 and completed a general surgery residency at New York University/Bellevue/Manhattan VA Hospital, in 1985. After a year of fellowship at The M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, he returned to NYU to complete a Cardiothoracic Surgery fellowship under the direction of world renown cardiac surgeon, Frank C. Spencer, M.D.
Prior to his recruitment to NYP Weill Cornell in 2004, Dr. Adkins held leadership positions at George Washington University as Clinical Chief of Cardiac Surgery and at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia where he was Chairman of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Throughout his career, he has maintained active membership in many professional societies including the American College of Surgeons, the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and the Frank C. Spencer Surgical Society.
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