Niberto Moreno, M.D., is medical director of cardiac surgery at Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute and a member of Baptist Health Medical Group, an organization of more than 180 physicians in multiple specialties closely aligned with Baptist Health South Florida.

Dr. Moreno is one of the pioneers in the area of beating-heart surgery, in which the heart is allowed to continue to pump blood to the body while intricate operating techniques are used by the surgeon, and in minimally invasive valve surgery. He did the first beating-heart operation in South Florida in 1994 and the first minimally invasive aortic and mitral valve surgeries the following year.

His affiliation with Baptist Health began in 1987, when he joined the medical staffs at Baptist and South Miami Hospitals. He is a past chief of surgery at Baptist Hospital, and for the past 10 years has served on the hospital CO's Executive Committee.

Dr. Moreno is Board-certified by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. He has published results of cardiovascular surgery studies in numerous medical journals and has trained other physicians extensively, particularly in Central and South America and the Caribbean. His postgraduate training includes residencies at the University of Illinois and Metropolitan Group Hospitals, and fellowships at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, Ill., and Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago.