Robert E. Michler, MD
Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Surgeon-in-Chief, Montefiore Health System
- Chairman, Surgery
- Chairman, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery
- Professor, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
- Professor, Department of Surgery
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Robert E. Michler, MD, has served as the Surgeon-in-Chief of the Montefiore Medical Center since 2008. He is Chairman of the Department of Surgery (2007) and Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery (2005) at the Montefiore Medical Center. Dr. Michler holds the Samuel I. Belkin Chair and is Professor with Tenure at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine.
Dr. Michler is an internationally renowned cardiothoracic surgeon and researcher. He is a highly sought after surgeon and known leader in several surgical specialties, including complex multi-procedural cardiac surgery, mitral and aortic valve repair surgery, surgery for congestive heart failure, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, and heart transplantation. Of particular note, Dr. Michler was one of the first to perform minimally invasive and robotic surgery in heart patients. His pivotal work in robotics led to Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of this advanced technology for mitral valve repair and coronary artery bypass surgery.
He is an NIH-funded investigator, serving as Principal Investigator for the NIH/NHLBI-sponsored Cardiothoracic Surgical Clinical Trials Network. He has participated in over 50 clinical trials including the use of myoblasts and stem cells for heart failure.
In 2017, Dr. Michler received the Vladimir Borakovsky Prize from the Russian Ministry of Health in Moscow for “his personal contributions to the development of cardiovascular surgery”.
Dr. Michler lectures extensively, both nationally and abroad, and is a regular Expert Opinion author on heart related topics including stem cell therapies, ischemic mitral regurgitation and ischemic heart failure. Over the years, Dr. Michler has provided regular commentary to NBC Nightly News, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal.
In his unique role as Chairman of both the Department of Surgery and the Department of Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgery, Dr. Michler applies his dynamic leadership to expand Montefiore Einstein's role at the forefront of surgical innovation. In 2017, he was responsible for establishing the Lung and Heart-Lung transplantation and end stage pulmonary failure program at Montefiore Einstein.
Formerly, Dr. Michler held the John G. and Jeanne Bonnet McCoy Endowed Chair, tenured Professor of Surgery, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Director of Heart & Lung Transplantation at The Ohio State University Medical Center. He also served as the Associate Director of the Dorothy M. Davis Heart and Lung Research Institute. Dr. Michler was integral to the planning, design, and philanthropic development for the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital. Dr. Michler served as the first Executive Director of the Richard M. Ross Heart Hospital.
Before joining The Ohio State University faculty, Dr. Michler was a tenured Associate Professor of Surgery at Columbia University and Director of the Heart Transplant Program at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
Dr. Michler received his undergraduate education Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University. He received his medical education at Dartmouth Medical School where he was a Leopold Schepp Scholar. Dr. Michler completed his residency in General Surgery, a fellowship in Cardiothoracic Transplantation and a fellowship in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York, followed by a fellowship in Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery at Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School.
Dr. Michler has received numerous honors including “Person of the Week” by ABC World News Tonight, the Pace Humanitarian Award, and “The Order of Christopher Columbus” by Hippolito Mejia, President of the Dominican Republic.
Gender: Male
Credentials
Titles and Positions
- Surgeon-in-Chief, Montefiore Health System
- Chairman, Surgery
- Chairman, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery
- Professor, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
- Professor, Department of Surgery
Education and Training
- Medical Education Dartmouth Medical School
- Fellowship Children's Hospital of Boston
- Residency Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center
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Publications
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Long-term results of surgical ventricular reconstruction and comparison with the Surgical Treatment for Ischemic Heart Failure trialRobert E. MichlerFeb 2024Mario Gaudino; Serenella Castelvecchio; Mohamed Rahouma; N. Bryce Robinson; Katia Audisio; Giovanni J. Soletti; Gianmarco Cancelli; Derrick Y. Tam; Andrea Garatti; Umberto Benedetto; Torsten Doenst; Leonard N. Girardi; Robert E. Michler; Stephen E. Fremes; Eric J. Velazquez; Lorenzo Menicanti
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The impact of perioperative stroke and delirium on outcomes after surgical aortic valve replacementRobert E. Michler; Joseph J. DeRose; Daniel J. GoldsteinFeb 2024Steven R. Messé; Jessica R. Overbey; Vinod H. Thourani; Alan J. Moskowitz; Annetine C. Gelijns; Mark A. Groh; Michael J. Mack; Gorav Ailawadi; Karen L. Furie; Andrew M. Southerland; Michael L. James; Claudia Scala Moy; Lopa Gupta; Pierre Voisine; Louis P. Perrault; Michael E. Bowdish; A. Marc Gillinov; Patrick T. O'Gara; Maral Ouzounian; Bryan A. Whitson; John C. Mullen; Marissa A. Miller; James S. Gammie; Stephanie Pan; Guray Erus; Jeffrey N. Browndyke; Wendy C. Taddei-Peters; Neal O. Jeffries; Dennis Buxton; Nancy L. Geller; David Gordon; Catherine Burke; Albert Lee; Tyrone Smith; Claudia S. Moy; Ilana Kogan Gombos; Richard Weisel; Timothy J. Gardner; Eric A. Rose; Michael K. Parides; Deborah D. Ascheim; Emilia Bagiella; Ellen Moquete; Kinjal Shah; Robert E. Michler; Joseph J. DeRose; Daniel J. Goldstein; Ricardo A. Bello; Daniel Spevack; David D'Alessandro
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Tissue engineering of the heartRobert E. MichlerJan 2023Michael O. Zembala; Ricardo A. Bello; Robert E. Michler
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Cost-Effectiveness of Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery Versus Medicine in Ischemic Cardiomyopathy: The STICH Randomized Clinical TrialRobert E. MichlerMar 2022Derek S. Chew; Patricia A. Cowper; Hussein Al-Khalidi; Kevin J. Anstrom; Melanie R. Daniels; Linda Davidson-Ray; Yanhong Li; Robert E. Michler; Julio A. Panza; Ileana L. Piña; Jean L. Rouleau; Eric J. Velazquez; Daniel B. Mark
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Treatment options for ischemic mitral regurgitation: A meta-analysisRobert MichlerFeb 2022Francesco Nappi; George A. Antoniou; Antonio Nenna; Robert Michler; Umberto Benedetto; Sanjeet Singh Avtaar Singh; Ivan Carmine Gambardella; Massimo Chello
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