Dr. Robert Farivar is an accomplished, fellowship-trained cardiothoracic surgeon specializing in adult cardiac surgery. He serves as the Medical Director of Cardiovascular Surgery for the following Broward County hospitals: Northwest Medical Center and Westside Regional Medical Center. His expertise is in minimally invasive valve surgery, including aortic and mitral valve repair and replacement. He is also skilled in cardiac surgery, reoperative surgery, octogenarian surgery and bloodless cardiac surgery.
Prior to joining Florida Heart and Vascular Care, Dr. Farivar led a team of surgeons at Minneapolis Heart Institute at Abbott Northwestern Hospital. He was the first surgeon in the United States to perform transcatheter mitral valve replacement (TMVR). Since then, he has gone on to publish numerous papers and lecture on the procedure. He also has expertise in transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR.
Dr. Farivar received his bachelor?s degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry from Yale University before earning his medical and doctoral degrees in pathology from Boston University School of Medicine. He went on to complete his fellowship in general and cardiac surgery at Brigham and Women?s Hospital, Harvard Medical School in 2006. Dr. Farivar served as Chief Resident the final year of his general surgery residency prior to completing his cardiothoracic surgery residency at Brigham & Women?s Hospital, where he also served as Chief Resident his final year.
Committed to excellence in the field of cardiac surgery, Dr. Farivar belongs to a number of professional societies including the Twenty-first Century Cardiac Surgical Society and Society of Thoracic Surgeons and serves as a reviewer for numerous professional journals. He has been published in The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, The Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery, and The American Journal of Cardiology.