Elbert Williams, MD

Elbert Williams, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Associate Program Director of the school’s Integrated Thoracic Surgery Residency program, and Director of The Mount Sinai Hospital’s Aortic Aneurysm Surveillance Program.

As a surgeon, Dr. Williams focuses primarily on aortic procedures. He performs valve-sparing root replacements, aortic arch and hybrid arch repairs, the Ross Procedure, replacements of aortic aneurysms, as well as Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) procedures.

Over the past decade, Dr. Williams’ surgical experience has helped inform his academic research, which focuses on clinical outcomes in aortic reconstructive surgery and improving lifetime management of aortic valve disease.

His research has been published in leading peer-reviewed medical journals, including the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery, the Annals of Thoracic Surgery, Seminars in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Cardiac Surgery Annual, the Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery, ASAIO Journal, JTCVS Techniques and Heart Rhythm. He has also contributed his expertise to medical textbooks and delivers invited lectures at medical conferences around the world.

A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, Dr. Williams earned his medical degree from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. He served as Chief Resident and completed a subsequent fellowship in cardiovascular surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where he joined the faculty in 2020.

“The thing that drew me to heart surgery was that it’s a specialty where I can have an immediate impact on a patient’s problem and change the course of their life for the better,” Dr. Williams said. “I try to treat every patient as I would treat my own wife, father or another family member.”