CURRICULUM VITAE
Salvior Mok
Date of CV preparation: February 8, 2019
PERSONAL DATA
Office address: Cardiothoracic Surgical Associates
Marian Professional Building
Buffalo, NY 14220
Telephone: 917-***-****
E-mail: ac8jvl@r.postjobfree.com
EDUCATION
B.Sc. University of British Columbia, British Columbia, Canada 1992-1996 M.D. St. George's University, Grenada, West Indies 2001-2005
POST-DOCTORAL TRAINING
Intern 2005-2006
University of Dentistry and Medicine of New Jersey/Rutgers, Newark, New Jersey
Resident, Pediatrics 2006-2007
State University of New York/Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York
Resident, General Surgery 2007-2012
University of Dentistry and Medicine of New Jersey/Rutgers, Newark, New Jersey
Chief Resident, General Surgery 2011-2012
University of Dentistry and Medicine of New Jersey/Rutgers, Newark, New Jersey
Resident, Cardiothoracic Surgery 2012-2014
Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York
Chief Resident, Cardiothoracic Surgery 2013-2014
Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Advanced fellow, Cardiothoracic Surgery 2014-2015
Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut
Clinical Associate, Robotic Cardiac Surgery 2015-2016
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine 2016-2017
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio
Attending Cardiothoracic Surgeon 2017-present
Catholic Health – Mercy Hospital of Buffalo, NY
OTHER PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
Patrol Subunit Commander 1997-2001
Operational Support Subunit Commander
Platoon Commander, ‘Echo’ Company
Woman Inspector of Police
Hong Kong Police
LICENSURE
New York State License (# 272741-1) 2012-present
Ohio Medical License (#126***-****-****
Fundamentals of Laparoscopic Surgery Program (Certificate # 104*********) 2011
BOARD CERTIFICATION
American Board of Thoracic Surgery (Certificate # 8347) 2017- present
ADVANCED TRAINING
Thoracic Surgery Directors Association 2012 Boot Camp, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 2012
Current Status of Robotic CABG & Hybrid Coronary Revascularization 2013
White Plains, New York
Transmyocardial Revascularization using a Holmium: YAG laser system 2013
Aortic Valve and Root Boot Camp 2013
Edwards Life Sciences’ Fellows Program, Irvine, CA 2014
Metronics Advanced Ablation course 2017
Cleveland, OH
Improving Outcomes with the Impella – platform certification program 2018
Presented by Abiomed
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
Member The Society of Thoracic Surgeons
Member The New York Society for Thoracic Surgery
Member American College of Surgeons
Member Women in Thoracic Surgery/Association of Women Surgeons
HONORS AND AWARDS
Dean's Honor Roll
University of British Columbia
1996
International Peace Scholarship
St. George's University
B
2001
Best Female Athlete Hong Kong Police
2002
First place, Adult Cardiac Division
Resident Poster Competition, AATS 94th meeting. Toronto, ON, Canada
2014
RESEARCH
Outcome of negative pressure wound management system in open chested cardiac surgical patients
July 2016 – March 2018
Twenty-Five Year Outcome of Composite Graft Aortic Root Replacement: Near “Curative” Impact on Aortic Root Disease
Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
January 2015 – January 2016
Use of Daptomycin as a first-line treatment in gram-positive prosthetic valve endocarditis
Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT
September 2014
The effect of time elapsed from initial presentation to surgery in patients with acute type A aortic dissection on mortality
Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York
December 2013 – April 2014
Impact of LVAD as a Bridge Therapy on Post-transplant Outcomes
Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York
October 2012-April 2013
Effect of hair remover on an edematous digit as an effective treatment of Hair Tourniquet Syndrome
Emergency Department, The Brooklyn Hospital Center
Brooklyn, New York
2004
Hypoxic model for the etiology of Alzheimer's Disease
Department of Physiology, Hong Kong University
Hong Kong
December 1996 - June 1997
Undergraduate thesis on Endothelial Derived Relaxing Factor
Department of Physiology, University of British Columbia
British Columbia, Canada
September 1995 - June 1996
ABSTRACTS & PRESENTATIONS
“Advances in Managing the Non-Infected Open Chest after Cardiac Surgery: Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy”
Bakaeen FG, McCurry KR, Ibrahim M, Haddad O, Mok S, et al.
Read at the 98th Annual Meeting of The American Association for Thoracic Surgery,San Diego, California, April 28 – May 1, 2018
Case report entitled “Un-roofing a Myocardial Bridge”
Mok S, D Majdalany, G Pettersson.
Annual Scientific Sessions 2017, 22nd World Congress on Heart Disease, International Academy of Cardiology
Hyatt Regency Vancouver, Vancouver, B.C. Canada
July 14-16, 2017
Case Video entitled "Combined Mitral Valve Repair and Valve Preserving Aortic Root Replacement"
Mok S, Javadikasgari H, Roselli E, Gillinov AM.
Learning Center at the AATS Centennial at the Hynes Convention Center, Boston, MA
April 29 - May 3, 2017
Plenary Citation: Positive family history of aortic dissection dramatically increases dissection risk in family members.
Ma W-G, Chou AS, Mok S, Ziganshin BA, Charilaou P, Zafar MA
The American Association for Thoracic Surgery Aortic Symposium 2016.
May 12-13, 2016, New York, NY
Twenty-Five Year Outcome of Composite Graft Aortic Root Replacement: Near “Curative” Impact on Aortic Root Disease.
Mok S, Ma WG, Mansour A, Charilaou P, Peterss S, Ziganshin B, Tranquilli M, Elefteriades J.
Oral presentation at 52nd Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Phoenix, AZ, Jan 23-27, 2016
January 2016
Do familial aortic dissections tend to occur at the same age?
Ma A, Ma W, Mok S, Ziganshin B, Tranquilli M, Elefteriades.
Presented at the Poster Session of the 52nd Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, Phoenix, AZ, Jan 23–27, 2016
The effect of time elapsed from initial presentation to surgery in patients with acute type A aortic dissection on mortality
Mok S, R Bello, J DeRose
First place. Resident poster competition. AATS poster competition. Toronto, ON, Canada
April 2014
The effect of time elapsed from initial presentation to surgery in patients with acute type A aortic dissection on mortality.
Mok S, Chan, CH, Bello R, DeRose J.
Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York
March 2013
Left Ventricular Laceration. New York Society for Thoracic Surgery
January 2013
Mok S, Bello R. Impact of LVAD as a Bridge Therapy on Post-transplant Outcomes. Resident Research Day. Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, New York
March 2012
Key to be a Good Resident. Department of Surgery. University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey/Rutgers Newark, New Jersey
October 2011
Bowel Preparation of Not in Colorectal Surgery. Department of Surgery, Hackensack University Medical Center. Hackensack, New Jersey
October 2011
Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement. . Department of Surgery, University of Medicine and Dentistry in New Jersey/Rutgers. Newark, New Jersey
November 2011
BOOK CHAPTERS
TSRA Review of Cardiothoracic Surgery. Second edition. Disease of the Pericardium
September 2014
JOURNAL REVIEWER EXPERIENCE
AORTA journal
MANUSCRIPT IN PRESS
Mok S, Majdalany D, Pettersson G. Extensive unroofing of myocardial bridge: a case report and literature review. SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, Volume: 7:1-3 January 16, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1177/2050313X18823380
Bakaeen FG, McCurry KR, Ibrahim M, Haddad O, Mok S, et al. Advances in Managing the Non-Infected Open Chest after Cardiac Surgery: Negative-Pressure Wound Therapy. Journal of Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery 2018; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtcvs.2018.10.152
Ma W-G, Chou AS, Mok S, Ziganshin BA, Charilaou P, Zafar MA, et al. Positive Family History of Aortic Dissection Dramatically Increases Dissection Risk in Family Members. International Journal of Cardiology. April 25, 2017 doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2017.04.080
Mok S, Ma W, Mansour A, Charilaou P, Peterss S, Ziganshin B, Tranquilli M, Elefteriades J. Twenty-Five Year Outcomes of Composite Graft Aortic Root Replacement. J Card Surg. DOI:10.1111/jocs.12875
Mazur P, Mok S, Krishnaswamy A, Kapadia S, Navia J. Mitral valve surgery after failed MitraClip implantation. Journal of Cardiac Surgery. J Card Surg 2016; 1–12. DOI 10.1111/jocs.12877
Ma A, Ma W, Mok S, Ziganshin B, Tranquilli M, Elefteriades. Do familial aortic dissections tend to occur at the same age? Ann Thorac Surg. 2016 Aug 20. pii: S0003-4975(16)30685-3
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NEWS MEDIA RECOGNITION
Featured on ‘Business People’, The Buffalo News, Sunday, November 5, 2017
TV interview, ‘AM Buffalo’, on women’s heart health, January 25, 2018
Keynote speaker, ‘Go Red for Women’ luncheon, Key Bank Center, Buffalo, NY. American Heart Association, February 3, 2018
REFERNECES
Gosta Pettersson, MD, PhD
Vice Chairman of the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Section Head, Congenital Heart Surgery
The Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart & Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic
Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Mail Code J4-1
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44195
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Marc Gillinov, M.D.
Judith Dion Pyle Chair in Heart Valve Research
Surgical Director of the Center for Atrial Fibrillation
Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery
Institute Experience Officer, Heart & Vascular Institute
Cleveland Clinic Main Campus
Mail Code J4-1
9500 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44195
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John Elefteriades, MD
William W. L. Glenn Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery in the Yale School of Medicine and Yale-New Haven Hospital
Director of the Yale Center for Thoracic Aortic Disease
800 Howard Ave Fl 2, New Haven, CT 06519
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Harsh Jain, M.D.
Cardiothoracic Surgical Associates
Marian Professional Building
515 Abbott Road, Suite 310
Buffalo, NY 14220
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John Forman, M.D.
Attending in Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
St. Joseph Medical Center
1000 Carondelet Dr
Kansas City, MO 64114
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Sabet Hashim, MD
Chairman, Surgeon-in-Chief
Hartford HealthCare Heart and Vascular Institute
85 Seymour Street, Suite 919, Hartford, CT 06106
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Nicole Wilson, N.P.
Bon Secours Mercy Health Youngstown, OH
1044 Belmont Ave, Youngstown, OH 44501
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