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Dr. Robert F Tranbaugh is Professor of Clinical Cardiothoracic Surgery at the New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical College and serves as the Chairman of the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the New York Methodist Hospital.Dr. Tranbaugh is a magna cum laude graduate of Franklin and Marshall College with an AB degree in chemistry. After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in 1976, he completed his general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery residencies under Paul A Ebert, MD at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Tranbaugh first joined the faculty at the State University of New York—Health Science Center at Brooklyn as director of pediatric cardiac surgery. He was then selected to be the first Chief of Cardiac Surgery in 1991 at the Beth Israel Medical Center where he built a highly successful adult cardiac surgery program.A superb surgeon, Dr. Tranbaugh has consistently achieved outstanding results as measured by the New York State Department of Health Cardiac Surgery Reporting System. His mortality rates have been among the lowest of all surgeons in the State. He has been regularly named to the New York Best Doctors and Castle Connolly’s America’s Top Doctors as well as Super Doctors featured in the New York Times. Dr. Tranbaugh was also recently named by US News and World Report as one of the Top 1% of all cardiac surgeons in the United States. In addition to his expertise in complex arterial bypass surgery, he is an accomplished valve and aneurysm surgeon. Dr. Tranbaugh is also known to be a caring, compassionate and dedicated cardiac surgeon.Dr. Tranbaugh’s research interest has been focused on the role of radial artery grafting in improving outcomes after coronary artery bypass surgery. He has published extensively and frequently lectured on the use of the radial artery during bypass surgery. Dr. Tranbaugh is a past president of the New York Society of Thoracic Surgeons and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Cardiology. He is a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, the New York Surgical and the UCSF Naffziger Surgical Society.