Dr. Hartmuth B. Bittner MD, Ph.D., FACS
Cardiothoracic Surgeon
3900 ST FRANCIS WAY STE 200 LAFAYETTE IN, 47905About
Dr. Hartmuth B. Bittner is a cardiothoracic surgeon practicing in Tucson, AZ Tallahassee, FL and at UMass in Massachusetts. Dr. Bittner specializes in surgical procedues of vital organs in the chest such as the heart, lungs, and more. As a cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr. Bittner typically treats conditions like heart disease and lung disease. This class of surgeon can also include cardiac surgeons, cardiovascular surgeons, congenital heart surgeons and general thoracic surgeons. Dr. Bittner's subspecialties include the surgical support for end-stage cardiopulmonary disaeases such as heart failure surgery, heart and lung transplantation. He prefers the minimally invasive approach through key hole incisions to repair or replace the mitral and aortic valve. Based on a greater than 15 year experince in catheter-based aortic valve interventions and replacement (TAVR) he was instrumental to build and expand the TAVR program at various hospitals and medical cnters.
Education and Training
University of Leipzig PhD 2004
University of Heidelberg Medical School MD 1989
National Academy of Sports Science and Sports Medicine Diplomat 1982
German Special Forces Lieutenant 1977
Board Certification
DE C1-0024677
TN license #62123
WI license #74418-20
IN license #01084968B
Iowa license #MD-48074
OH license #35.137046
NM license #MD2019-0539
IL license #036.150312
MO license #2019012964
MN license #64743
OK license #34361
SD license #11140
FL license # ME112494
ABTS # 6348; Recertification in Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery
ABTS # 6348
American Board of Surgery # 43821
NC license # 94-01131
FLEX basic and clinical science
ECFMG # 432-115-4
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Right ventricular dysfunction after cardiac transplantation: primarily related to status of donor heart.
- Surgical resection of an intracardiac rhabdomyoma.
- Hyperacute rejection in single lung transplantation--case report of successful management by means of plasmapheresis and antithymocyte globulin treatment.
- Coronary artery spasm and ventricular fibrillation after off-pump coronary surgery.
- Off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting in a patient with AIDS, acute myocardial infarction, and severe left main coronary artery disease.
- Effects of the Berlin Heart biventricular assist device on microvascular responses in pre-transplant patients.
- Assessment of immunosuppressive drug interactions: inhibition of lymphocyte function in peripheral human blood.
- C0h/C2h monitoring of the pharmacodynamics of cyclosporin plus mycophenolate mofetil in human heart transplant recipients.
- On-pump beating heart versus off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery-evidence of pump-induced myocardial injury.
- Successful management of two heart transplant recipients with mycobacterial pulmonary infections.
- Skin microcirculation and laser Doppler blood flow in patients supported by the Berlin heart biventricular assist device.
- Aprotinin decreases reperfusion injury and allograft dysfunction in clinical lung transplantation.
- Pharmacodynamic monitoring of the conversion of cyclosporine to tacrolimus in heart and lung transplant recipients.
- Coronary artery spasm of the native right coronary artery during off-pump coronary surgery of the left coronary artery system.
- Swan-Ganz catheter-induced severe complications in cardiac surgery: right ventricular perforation, knotting, and rupture of a pulmonary artery.
Faculty Titles & Positions
- Director of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Director of Heart Failure Largo Medical Center 2016 - 2018
- Vice Chief of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery Tampa General Hospital 2016 - 2018
- President and Founder Gulf Coast Cardiothoracic Surgery Institute, 2015 -
- Director Heart and Lung Transplantation and Chief of Advanced Cardiac Surgery, Florida Hospital 2012 - 2015
- Endowed Chair Clinical and Experimental Thoracic Organ Transplantation, Heart Center, University of Leipzig 2008 - 2013
- Associate Professor Cardiac Surgery, Heart Center, University of Leipzig 2002 - 2008
- Assistant Professor Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, University of Minnesota 1999 - 2002
- Lecturer “The Human Nervous System”, Department of Anatomy and Histology, University of Heidelberg 1989 -
- Visiting Lecturer, Tutor in Gross Anatomy The New Pathway Program, Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, Harvard Medical School 1987 -
- Visiting Lecturer Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology, Harvard Medical School 1986 -
- Teaching Assistant Department of Anatomy and Histology, University of Heidelberg 1984 - 1985
Awards
- “Best in Medicine” award in CT Surgery 2017 American Health Council
- German Science Foundation: Endowed Chair of Thoracic Transplantation 2008
- NIH: R01, PI: “Myocardial Performance after Off/On Pump Surgery” 2002
- AHA: PI, “to pump or not to pump: making myocardial revascularization less traumatic” 2002
- Bayer Corporation: “Attenuating Lung transplant reperfusion Injury” 2001
- Richard L. Varco New Faculty Research Award 2000
- Minnesota Medical Foundation Research Grant: “A closer look at off-pump CABG” 1999
- Thoracic Surgery Directors Association Award: Chen E.P., Bittner H.B., Davis R.D., Van Trigt P. 1997
- Young Investigator Award, American College of Chest Physicians 1997
- Young Investigator Award, American College of Chest Physicians 1996
- Young Investigator Award, American College of Chest Physicians 1994
Professional Memberships
- American Board of Thoracic Surgery (ABTS)
- Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (FACS)
- Sabiston Surgical Society
- International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
- The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
- The European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery
- German Society of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
- Florida Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons
- CTSnet
Fellowships
- Department of Anatomy and Histology, University of Heidelberg, Germany, Chair Prof. WG Forssmann Research Fellow, 1987
- Duke University, Department of General and CT Surgery Research Fellow, CT Surgery 1993
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