SUVRO SETT, MD
CHIEF OF CARDIOTHORACIC SURGERY
Dr. Suvro Sett received his M.D. degree in 1983 from the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, S.A. in 1983. He immediately became a Clinical Assistant Professor in 1983, and rose to Clinical Associate Professor in 1996 at the University of British Columbia, where he taught until 2004. During this same period he also held various internships and residencies, and from 1991 to 1993 he was a Duncan L. Gordon Fellow in Pediatric Cardiac Surgery & Cardiovascular Research at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Ontario. He was a pediatric cardiovascular and thoracic surgeon at British Columbia Children's Hospital in Vancouver, British Columbia, from 1993 to 2004, and adult congenital cardiac surgeon at both St. Paul's Hospital and Vancouver General Hospital in Vancouver from 1997 to 2004.
In 2004, Dr. Sett came to Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, New York, where he became Chief, Pediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgery at the Medical Center and Associate Professor of Surgery at New York Medical College. He was named Professor of Clinical Surgery in 2006. He teaches 3rd and 4th year Medical Student Lectures on Congenital Cardiac Surgery. He has also taught a number of Cardio Vascular (CV) Surgery Residents and has supervised other graduate students, medical students and allied health students as well over the course of his career.
Dr. Sett's area of special interest is neonatal myocardial protection. He has received a number of research or equivalent grants, has been invited to make many presentations at various hospitals and has a published a long list of articles in journals.
