Georg M. Wieselthaler, MD, is a top heart and lung surgeon who lends his skills and expertise to serve patients at the UCSF Heart and Vascular Center in San Francisco, California. He serves as Director & Surgical Chief, Cardiac Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery. He can be found at the Parnassus location of the UCSF Cardiovascular Care and Prevention Center Furthermore, Dr. Wieselthaler is a Professor of Clinical Surgery within the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. With twenty-six years of experience as a cardiothoracic surgeon, he specializes in mechanical circulatory support for patients with end-stage heart failure, specifically ventricular assist devices (VADs). As one of the world leaders in the field, Dr. Wieselthaler he has performed and supervised more than 350 heart transplants. Areas of clinical expertise include implanting ventricular assist devices (VADs), aortic valve repair and replacement, acute aortic dissection repair, coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), heart transplantation, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, minimally invasive valve surgery, mitral valve repair and replacement, and myocardial revascularization surgery, thoracic aneurysm repair, off-pump coronary artery bypass (OBCAB), and thoracic aortic reconstruction.  Dr. Wieselthaler is considered an expert in treating arrhythmia, end-stage heart failure, and ventricular aneurysms. For more information about Dr. Georg M. Wieselthaler, please visit https://www.ucsfhealth.org/providers/dr-georg-wieselthaler.

Get to know Cardiothoracic Surgeon Dr. Georg M. Wieselthaler, who serves patients in San Francisco, California.

Dr. Wieselthaler, a heart and lung surgeon, is the Director of the Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support Program at the UCSF Heart and Vascular Center in San Francisco, California. He is one of the world’s leading experts in mechanical circulatory support for patients with end-stage heart failure and has performed and supervised more than 350 heart transplants. He also has extensive expertise in implanting ventricular assist devices (VADs), which help failing hearts pump blood. Among Dr. Wieselthaler’s areas of clinical expertise include: acute aortic dissection repair, aortic valve repair & replacement, arrhythmia, coronary artery bypass grafting, end-stage heart failure, heart transplantation, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, minimally invasive valve surgery, mitral valve repair & replacement, and myocardial revascularization surgery. Alongside his clinical role, he serves as a Professor of Surgery within the Division of Adult Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco.

Georg M. Wieselthaler, MD, is a 1987-graduate of the Medical University of Vienna in Vienna, Austria, his native country. His postgraduate training includes his Military Service at Military Hospital’s Department of Surgery in Vienna, Austria (1988-1989), as well as his surgical residency performed with the 2nd Department of Surgery at the University of Vienna (1989-1995). Dr. Wieselthaler completed two advanced fellowships as Staff Surgeon with St. Pölten Hospital’s Department of Surgery in Austria (1996-1997, 1997-1998), as well as a fellowship in heart transplantation with the Vienna Heart Transplant Program (1998-2000) and a fellowship in lung transplantation with the Vienna Lung Transplant Program (2000-2003). Prior to medical school, he completed his undergraduate education in electrical engineering at the College for Electrical Engineering (1978). President-elect of the International Society for Rotary Blood Pumps, Dr. Wieselthaler is on the Board of the European Society for Artificial Organs. He is also former president of the Austrian Society for Implantology and Tissue Integrated Prosthesis. In April 2011, he was named Director of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. For more information about Georg M. Wieselthaler, MD, please visit https://www.findatopdoc.com/doctor/3242693-Georg-Wiesthelthaler-Doctor.