Our Team

Houston Methodist’s Department of Cardiovascular Surgery is known around the world for the surgical treatment of coronary artery disease. Our outstanding team of cardiovascular and thoracic surgeons are experts in diagnosis, treatment and discovery. In addition, our faculty conducts groundbreaking cardiovascular regeneration research and clinical trials. 

Please see below for a listing of our surgeons and faculty:

Leadership
Alan B. Lumsden, MD, Department Chair

Mehmet Hakan Akay, MD
Marvin D. Atkins, MD
Philip L. Auyang, MD
Charudatta Bavare, MD, MPH, FACS
Joseph M. Besho, MD, MS
Donnell K. Bowen, DO
Charlie Cheng, MD
Ray Chihara, MD
Kaled Diab, MD
Lucas Duvall, MD, FACS
Zsolt Garami, MD
Ammar Hashmi, MD
Yuncen Atticus He, MD
Tam T. Huynh, MD
Margaret Jackson, MD
Clifford Kitten, MD, FACS, FACC
Michael Koeckert, MD
Javier A. Lafuente, MD, FACS
Gerald M. Lawrie, MD
Linda Le, MD
Richard W. Lee, MD
Thomas M. Loh, MD
Tony Lu, MD
Ahmed Mohamed, MD
Garold Motes, MD
Joseph J. Naoum, MD, FACS, RPVI
Jacobo Nurko, MD
Walter W. O'Hara Jr, MD
Scott Olsson, MD
Eric K. Peden, MD
Andrea Giulio Quarti, MD
Maham Rahimi, MD
Mahesh K. Ramchandani, MD
Michael J. Reardon, MD
Dewei Ren, MD
Ross Michael Reul, MD
Trisha Roy, MD, PhD
Mini Sivadasan
Erik E. Suarez, MD
Michael S. Sweeney, MD
Randall Wolf, MD, FACS, FACC