Baton Rouge General (BRG) announced that it is expanding its cardiothoracic surgery services with the addition of two surgeons, Azeem Khan, MD, and Imtiaz Khan, MD.
Both cardiothoracic surgeons perform adult cardiac and thoracic surgery to treat diseases of the heart, aorta, lungs, and esophagus using state-of-the-art robotic and minimally invasive techniques. They offer complete robotic thoracic surgical services They specialize in various types of heart valve surgery, including trans-catheter valve replacement (TAVR), as well as coronary bypass surgery, heart and lung transplants, and the treatment of atrial fibrillation and advanced heart failure.
Azeem and Khan both graduated from LSU Health Sciences Center in Shreveport and completed a general surgery residency at LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans.
Khan completed a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and a pediatric cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine/Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. He also completed advanced training at The Arizona Heart Institute and The Heart Center in Leipzig, Germany.
Khan completed a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, as well as a heart/lung transplantation and advanced heart failure/mechanical circulatory support fellowship at The Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania.
Both surgeons also serve as national proctors for the DaVinci Intuitive Surgical Robotic platform.
Baton Rouge General Cardio and Thoracic Surgery Associates is located at 2223 Quail Run Dr., Suite E.