Arnar Geirsson, MD

Assistant Professor of Surgery (Section of Cardiac Surgery) and Director, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery

General Info
Maps & Directions

Specialty

Programs & Centers

Heart & Vascular Center, Yale-New Haven Hospital

Clinical Interests

Heart valve disease; heart failure; additional procedures: aortic root surgery; aortic valve surgery; off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery; minimally invasive surgery; mitral valve repairs; mitral valve prolapse

Accepts New Patients? Yes
Patient Type: Adult
Accepts appointments from patients or physicians

Board Certifications

Surgery, Thoracic, Board Certified, 2008

Language Spoken

Icelandic

Education & Training

Chief Resident, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Chief Resident, Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2007
Resident, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2006
Fellow, Hospital of University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2005
Resident, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, General Surgery, 2005
Chief Resident, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, General Surgery, 2005
Fellow, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, Immunobiology & Transplantation, 2002
Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, Immunobiology and Transplantation, 2002
Intern, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT, General Surgery, 1999
Intern, Landspitali University Hospital, Reykjavik, Iceland, 1998
M.D., University of Iceland, 1997