Marc Pelletier, MD, MSc, FRCSC
Chief, Division of Cardiac Surgery, University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute
Marc Pelletier, MD, MSc, FRCSC, is Chief of the Division of Cardiac Surgery at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center and Director of the Heart Surgery Center for University Hospitals Harrington Heart & Vascular Institute.
Dr. Pelletier joins UH from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, where he served since 2016 as surgical director of the transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) program. Prior to this role, he spent nine years as head of cardiac surgery at the New Brunswick Heart Centre in Canada. Before that, Dr. Pelletier was a surgeon and an assistant professor at Stanford University.
Dr. Pelletier trained at McGill University in cardiac surgery and Stanford University in cardiothoracic transplantation and ventricular assist devices. His areas of specialty include TAVR procedures, minimally invasive valve surgery, aortic valve and aortic root surgery, surgery for heart failure and minimally invasive coronary bypass surgery.
He has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed publications, with over 100 abstracts accepted at scientific meetings and participated in more than 100 invited talks. Dr. Pelletier was also chair of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada’s examination board in cardiac surgery from 2014 to 2018, and in 2018 received the Larry Cohn Outstanding Teacher Award for surgical education.
