Biographical Sketch
Gonzalo Gonzalez-Stawinski, MD, is a Surgeon in the Cleveland Clinic Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery. He specializes in adult cardiac surgery, heart transplantation, reoperations, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, pulmonary embolectomies and valve surgery. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.
A native of Puerto Rico, Dr. Gonzalez-Stawinski received his undergraduate degree from the Universidad Sagrado Corazon in Santurce, Puerto Rico, and his medical degree from the Ponce School of Medicine in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He completed his surgical internship at the Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Gonzalez-Stawinski then took residencies at the Allegheny University Hospital in Philadelphia and at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., where he became Chief Surgical Resident and a Surgical Research Fellow. He then accepted a cardiothoracic surgical fellowship from Cleveland Clinic where he became Chief Surgical Resident and received the Charles Bryant Clinical Excellence Award and the Kauffman Center Young Investigator's Award for Heart Failure. He was appointed to Cleveland Clinic in 2006 as an Associate Staff Surgeon in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery.
Dr. Gonzalez-Stawinski is a T-35 Grant Advisor for the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Md., and for Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. His clinical research focuses on the role of proteins in cardiac allograft humoral rejection and on the effect of medication on chemokine production and T-cell infiltration into heart allografts as well as on organ transplantation. He is involved as principal or co-investigator in the Genentech Preclinical Trial Investigation and the Genetech RiST Trial.
He has been a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins Medical Center and Duke University. He has authored or co-authored chapters in medical textbooks and has published his research findings and clinical experience in more than 60 medical publications including the Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation, Surgical Forum and Transplantation.
He is a candidate for the American College of Surgeons, a Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians, and a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. Dr. Gonzalez-Stawinski is fluent in English and Spanish.
For leisure, Dr. Gonzalez-Stawinski enjoys spending time with his family, surfing and playing baseball.
Specialty Interests
adult cardiac surgery, heart transplantation, pulmonary embolectomy and thromboendarterectomy, mechanical circulatory devices, reoperations, on and off pump coronary bypass operations and valve surgery
Innovations & Patents
Innovator Award, for electromagnetic external cardia assist device, 2007
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