Marc Pelletier MD MSc, FRCSC

Summary

• Dr. Marc Pelletier is the Chief of Cardiac Surgery at Yale School of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief of Cardiac Surgery for the Heart and Vascular Center of Yale New Haven Health System. Dr. Pelletier joined Yale from University Hospitals where he served as Division Chief in Cardiac Surgery and held the Jay L. Ankeney Professorship in Cardiothoracic Surgery at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. Prior to that, he served as surgical director of the TAVR program in the Division of Cardiac Surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He joined the Brigham group in 2016 after 9 years as Head of Cardiac Surgery at the New Brunswick Heart Centre, which followed a period as 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 over 130 peer-reviewed publications, with over 130 abstracts accepted at scientific meetings and over 120 invited and local talks. Dr. Pelletier is currently the Program Chair of the STS 2026 meeting and serves on multiple workforces for the STS including the Council on Education and the Cardiac and Vascular Surgery workforce. In 2018 he received the Larry Cohn Outstanding Teacher Award for surgical education. In 2025, he was awarded the Socrates Award by the Thoracic Surgery Residents Association recognizing an outstanding senior cardiothoracic surgery faculty member in North America for their commitment to resident education and mentorship.

Yale Medicine Cardiothoracic Surgeon Marc Pelletier, MD
Dr. Pelletier, chief of cardiac surgery at Yale, shares his thoughts on innovation and exciting procedures in cardiac surgery.