Faisal Bakaeen, MD, is Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and the Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid Al Maktoum Distinguished Chair in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He serves as the Surgical Director of the Coronary Center at the Heart Vascular and Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic.
Previously, Dr. Bakaeen was the Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, Baylor College of Medicine, and the Chair of the VA Surgical Quality Data Use Group and a member of the Surgical Advisory Board that oversaw the clinical operations at all 44 VA cardiac surgery centers.
Dr. Bakaeen earned his medical degree from the University of Cambridge School of Medicine, Cambridge, UK. He completed residency in general surgery at Mayo Clinic followed by a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine.
Dr. Bakaeen runs a busy clinical practice and has performed over 5000 cardiac surgeries. His areas of expertise include multi-arterial and minimally invasive coronary artery bypass grafting in addition to complex valve and aortic surgery. He is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award and the Fulbright Jaworski Faculty Excellence in Teaching Award from Baylor College of Medicine. He has over 360 publications and is an active member of multiple editorial boards. He has served in leadership positions of numerous high-profile trials including ROOBY, REGROUP, and EXACT and chaired and co-authored multiple professional clinical practice guidelines.
Dr. Bakaeen is a member of the American Surgical Association; served as Treasurer and President of the Association of VA Surgeons; Chair of Society of Thoracic Surgeons Workforce on Evidence Based Surgery; Co-Chair of the American Association for Thoracic Surgery Clinical Practice and Standards Committee; and Councilor of the Southern Thoracic Surgical Association.