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Dr. McCarthy is chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and co-director of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern University.Dr. McCarthy has achieved national and international recognition in the field of complex adult cardiac surgery. He has performed several thousand heart operations, averaging 450 per year.A professor of surgery at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Dr. McCarthy has distinguished himself as both a clinician and researcher in the field of cardiac surgery. He has authored or co-authored more than 300 papers and 30 book chapters. Dr. McCarthy developed the Edwards three-dimensional annuloplasty system for the repair of tricuspid regurgitation. He also recently modified this three-dimensional design concept to develop a ring to repair the mitral valve.Dr. McCarthy is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine. He completed his general and cardiac surgery training at the Mayo Clinic and completed a special heart and lung transplantation fellowship at Stanford University Medical Center. He practiced at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation from 1990 until March 2004. | 