Education

• MD, GT Popa University of Medicine, 1995
• Clinical and Research Fellowship, First Department of Surgery, Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan, 1996-1999
• Surgery Internship, Mount Sinai University Hospital, New York, NY 1999-2000
• Surgery Residency, Albert Einstein – Montefiore University Hospitals, New York, NY 2000-2004
• Cardiothoracic Surgery Fellowship, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2004-2006

Clinical Specialties

Dr. Lozonschi practices adult cardiac surgery and is certified by the American Board of Surgery and by the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. His interests include transcatheter heart valve therapies, robotic and minimally invasive cardiovascular operations including thoracoscopic treatment of atrial fibrillation, partial sternotomy valve operations and arterial beating heart revascularization. He also specializes in heart failure surgery including placement of mechanical heart assist devices and heart transplantation.

Dr. Lozonschi provides a wide range of services including Angioplasty, Aortic Valve-Sparing Surgery, Atrial Septal Defect (ASD) Repair, Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT), Cardioversion, Carotid and Peripheral Blood Vessel Revascularization, Carotid Artery Stent, Carotid Surgery and Intervention, Cryoablation, Destination Therapy for End-Stage Heart Failure, Endoscopic Surveillance, Heart Bypass (Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery - CABG), Heart Transplant, Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators (ICDs), In Situ Vein Bypass for Limb Salvage, Limb Salvage, Maze Procedure (Surgical), Maze Procedure (Minimally Invasive), Mitral Valve Repair, Pacemakers, (show all). Patent Foramen Ovale (PFO) Closure, Photodynamic Therapy, Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy, Radiofrequency Ablation (HALO), Renal Stenting, Robotic Cardiac Surgery, Stents (Drug-Eluting Stents), Surgical Ventricular Remodeling (SVR), Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Repair (Endovascular Graft), Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm Repair (Open Surgical), Transmyocardial Laser Revascularization (TMR), Valve Repair or Replacement Surgery (Minimally Invasive), Vena Cava Filter, and Ventricular Assist Devices.

Research Interests

Dr. Lozonschi’s experimental research focuses on endovascular surgery and transcatheter heart valve therapies. He also has an active basic science project to study angiogenesis in myocardial engineering and regeneration in the in-vivo models that he developed in Japan. Dr. Lozonschi has published surgical training models for experimental robotic closure of atrial septal defects.

Cardiothoracic Core Lab

Recent Publications

• Transcatheter aortic valve replacement: transapical resection of the aortic valve in vivo.
  Bombien Quaden R, Leester-Schaedel M, Lozonschi L, Lutter G
  Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 2012 Sep; 15(3):348-51.
  [PubMed ID: 22707518, PMC ID: 3422953]
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• Intravital microscopy to study myocardial engraftment.
  Lushaj EB, Hu J, Haworth R, Lozonschi L
  Interact Cardiovasc Thorac Surg 2012 Jul; 15(1):5-9.
  [PubMed ID: 22457185, PMC ID: 3380977]
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• Mitochondrial DNA deletion mutations in adult mouse cardiac side population cells.
  Lushaj EB, Lozonschi L, Barnes M, Anstadt E, Kohmoto T
  Mutat. Res. 2012 Jun 1; 734(1-2):62-8.
  [PubMed ID: 22426178]
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• Off-pump transapical mitral valve replacement: evaluation after one month.
  Iino K, Boldt J, Lozonschi L, Metzner A, Schoettler J, Petzina R, Cremer J, Lutter G
  Eur J Cardiothorac Surg 2012 Mar; 41(3):512-7.
  [PubMed ID: 22290931]
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• Mitral valved stent implantation: an overview.
  Attmann T, Pokorny S, Lozonschi L, Metzner A, Marcynski-Bühlow M, Schoettler J, Cremer J, Lutter G
  Minim Invasive Ther Allied Technol 2011 Apr; 20(2):78-84.
  [PubMed ID: 21417840]
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