Heart Institute welcomes new Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery

Dr. Kirk McMurtry has joined the medical staff at St. Joseph Medical Center and he is the newest member of Heart Institute joining the hospital from the Liberty Heart Institute, where he had been Chief of Cardiothoracic (CT) Surgery for Liberty Health in Jersey City, NJ. He is a graduate of the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City and completed his general surgery residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. He returned to Mt. Sinai where he completed a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery.

He is a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS), the International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS) and the American Medical Association. He is a Fellow in the American College of Surgery and is board certified in thoracic surgery and general surgery.

Dr. McMurtry’s comprehensive skill set of surgical capabilities includes procedures for coronary revascularization, aortic and mitral valve replacements and repairs and tricuspid valve repairs. He has the experience and expertise to perform high risk revascularizations and complex operations such as multiple valve repair in combination with revascularization. Dr. McMurtry has major credentials in the performance of minimally invasive mitral valve and aortic valve repairs and replacements, open aortic surgery and endovascular thoracic aortic procedures. He also performs the full spectrum of open and minimally invasive thoracic surgery including lobectomy and VATS (video assisted thoracic surgery).

Dr. McMurtry's office is located on St. Joseph's Bern Township campus in the Medical Office Building, Suite 207.  His office phone number is 610-378-2676.