LITTLE ROCK - Baptist Health Cardiothoracic Surgery Clinic welcomes Dr. Gamal Marey to its team.

Marey, who completed residencies at State University of New York Downstate Health Science Center and Tufts University Medical Center in Massachusetts, is fellowship trained in Advanced Aortic Surgery from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio.

The surgeon has 12 years of experience in his medical specialty which includes advanced aortic surgery, minimal access mitral/aortic valve replacement and repair, endocarditis, CABG, myectomy, pericardiectomy, transcatheter aortic valve replacement and heart transplantation.

Marey, along with Drs. Bo Busby and James Day from the clinic, perform virtually every type of cardiac surgery including elective or emergency surgery for heart valve disease, aortic aneurysm, coronary artery disease, arrhythmias, heart failure and other less common conditions using the newest surgical techniques, equipment and devices, including minimally invasive surgery, off-pump bypass, and robotically assisted and percutaneous procedures.