Juan Pablo Umana, MD

Dr. Juan Umaña is Chairman of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Florida and an Associate Staff Surgeon at Cleveland Clinic main campus in Cleveland, OH. He is board-certified by the American Board of Surgery and American Board of Thoracic Surgery.

Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Umaña was the Director of Cardiovascular Surgery, Fundacion Cardioinfantil (Children’s Heart Foundation), in Bogota, Colombia. He developed the largest aortic valve repair program in Latin America and established the Latin-American Cardiovascular Surgery Conference in association with the Society of Thoracic Surgeons and European Association for Cardiothoracic Surgery.

Specialty Interests: Mitral valve repair, tricuspid valve repair, aortic valve repair, valve-sparing aortic root replacement, Ross procedure, minimally invasive aortic root replacement, minimally invasive aortic valve replacement, transcatheter aortic valve replacement, transcatheter mitral valve repair, aortic dissection, cardiac tumors, mitral annular disjunction.

Number of Procedures Performed: Cleveland Clinic performs more than 4,000 heart surgeries each year. All Cleveland Clinic cardiac surgeons complete between 300-400 cardiac cases per year.

Success Rates: Cleveland Clinic is nationally and internationally renowned for the world’s best cardiovascular care. Learn more about our outcomes and statistics

Education and Training: Dr. Umaña completed his medical training at University of El Rosario in Bogota, Colombia. He received specialized training in cardiothoracic and cardiovascular surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and Stanford University School of Medicine. He also completed Cleveland Clinic’s Global Executive Education Program.

Publications and Speaking: Dr. Umaña has published dozens of scientific papers and contributed several chapters to medical and surgical textbooks. He helped develop, and shares a patent for the MitraClip, which is a device used for minimally invasive mitral valve repair. Dr. Umaña has been invited to speak at nearly 100 medical conferences throughout the world, including presentations related to complex procedures such as mitral valve repair for patients with mitral annular dysjunction and aortic valve-sparing root replacement with valve reimplantation.

Dr. Umaña has received many awards for his work, including the Jose Vicente Castro-Silva Medal bestowed by El Rosario University as its highest award to medical doctors for their service to Colombia.

About Dr. Umaña: “I consider myself lucky to be able to help patients by performing life-saving procedures every minute I spend in the operating room. I take the trust that patients and their families put in me very seriously and constantly strive to improve processes and procedures to offer the safest and best possible treatments for their conditions.”

Leisure time activities: In his free time, Dr. Umaña enjoys surfing and skiing with his family.