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About Arnar Geirsson, MD
Dr. Geirsson is a renowned cardiac surgeon, Chief of Cardiac Surgery, and the Director of the Cardiovascular Institute at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center. With an upbringing and medical education in Iceland, he honed his skills in General Surgery at Yale University and Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania between 1998 and 2007. During his tenure at Yale as the Director of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery from 2007 to 2013, he made significant contributions to the field. Dr. Geirsson then returned to Iceland from 2013 to 2016, serving as a Cardiothoracic Surgeon at Landspitali University Hospital in Reykjavik. Driven by his passion for i...
Expertise
- Adult Cardiac Surgery
- Aortic and Mitral Valve Surgery
- Aortic Valve Surgery
- Cardiac Valve Replacement
- Cardiac Valve Surgery
- Coronary and Structural Heart Interventions
- Da Vinci Robotic Surgery
- Heart Surgery
- Heart Valve Disease
- Heart Valve Repair
- Heart Valve Replacement
- Heart Valve Surgery
- Minimally Invasive Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery
- Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
- Minimally Invasive Heart Surgery
- Minimally Invasive Techniques
- Minimally Invasive Valve Repair
- Mitral Valve Prolapse
- Mitral Valve Reconstruction
- Mitral Valve Repair
- Mitral Valve Replacement/Repair
- Mitral Valve Surgery
- Mitral/Aortic Valve Replacement
- Robotic Surgery
- Structural Heart Disease
Languages
- Icelandic
Titles & Positions
- Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery
- Co-Director, Mitral and Tricuspid Center
- Director, Cardiovascular Institute
- Director, Surgical Heart Valve Program
- Professor of Surgery at CUMC
- Vice Chair for Faculty Development, Department of Surgery
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Awards & Honors
- 2021: Mitral Valve Repair Reference Center Award. American Heart Association and the Mitral Foundation recognized Yale-New Haven Hospital as referral center for mitral valve repair. Arnar Geirsson lead mitral valve surgeon.
- 2020: Richard E. Clark Memorial Paper for Adult Cardiac Surgery presented at the 2020 Society of Thoracic Surgery Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Jan 26-28, 2020. The Evolving Burden of Infective Endocarditis Due to Illicit Drug Use in the United States: An Analysis of the STS Adult Cardiac Surgery Database.
- 2019: Ingegerd and Viking Olov Bjork Scholarship. Invitation for partipating in the 2019 SATS/Swedish Thoracic meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, September 4-6, 2019.
- 2016: Best article published in the EJCTS in 2016 at the Journal Family Session at the EACTS Annual meeting in Barcelona, Spain, Oct 1-5, 2016. The Incidence and Mortality of Acute Thoracic Aortic Dissection: Results from a Whole Nation Study. European Journal of Cardio-Thoracic Surgery.
- 2009: Career Development Award. Thoracic Surgery Foundation for Research and Education. "Role of micro RNA in Cardiac Ischemia and Heart Failure".
- 2001: Research Fellowship Award. The International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. "Characterization of trophoblast factor suppressing MHC class II expression".
Titles & Positions
- Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery
- Co-Director, Mitral and Tricuspid Center
- Director, Cardiovascular Institute
- Director, Surgical Heart Valve Program
- Professor of Surgery at CUMC
- Vice Chair for Faculty Development, Department of Surgery
Languages Spoken
- icelandic
NYP Articles & Features
AATS 2026: Highlights, Insights, and Lessons in Cardiothoracic Leadership
Advances•June 25, 2026NewYork-Presbyterian Team Among the First in the Nation to Implant New FDA-Approved Bioprosthetic Mitral Valve
Advances•May 20, 2026Highlights From the 2025 AATS Mitral Conclave
Advances•January 09, 2026Pediatric Robotic Cardiac Program Tackles Congenital Heart Defects Without Sternotomy
Advances•June 18, 2025Giving Heart Patients New Life
Health Matters•May 06, 2024