Li Poa, MD

Dr. Poa is nationally and internationally recognized as a pioneer and leader in minimal access cardiac surgery. He has been in the forefront of the development of thoracoscopic cardiac ablation, minimal access valvular surgery, and beating heart coronary/valvular surgery for more than 22 years.

A graduate with honors from Northwestern University Medical School, Dr. Poa was general surgery chief resident at Albert Einstein Medical Center and cardiothoracic surgery chief resident at UCLA Medical Center. He has served as the medical director and chief of cardiac surgery at the Enloe Medical Center and the medical director and chief of the Heart and Vascular Institute of Stamford Hospital where he was made full professor of surgery at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is board certified with the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and is a fellow of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Society of Thoracic Surgeons, International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery. He served as the Co-Chair for the National Health Council from 2005-2007.