Mateo Marin-Cuartas

Dr. Mateo Marin-Cuartas is a cardiac surgeon in the University Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Leipzig Heart Center in Leipzig, Germany. He is board-certified in cardiac surgery and also trained in critical care medicine. Dr. Marin-Cuartas obtained his doctoral degree at the University of Leipzig, in Leipzig, Germany, for his research on mitral valve disease and coursed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Cardiothoracic Surgery Department at Stanford University in Stanford, California, with a focus on heart valve biomechanics. Dr. Marin-Cuartas is the coordinator of academic affairs and the hybrid thoracoscopic atrial fibrillation ablation program at the cardiac surgery department in Leipzig. He holds leadership positions at the Latin American Association of Cardiac and Endovascular Surgery (LACES), serves as a member of the Mitral and Tricuspid Task Force at the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS), and holds editorial positions at EJCTS, JACC Case Reports, CTSnet, and LACES. His main research interest is valvular heart disease.