Dr. Taylor has many years of experience in all aspects of adult heart surgery. He specializes in minimally invasive cardiac surgery and endovascular surgery. He strives to provide compassionate, superior-quality patient care; further clinical excellence; promote clinical and basic science research; and create an environment of patient safety. He is also very committed to developing future physicians through resident and fellowship training.
Dr. Taylor knows the latest techniques in complex aortic surgery. He performs robotic-assisted coronary artery bypass grafting and hybrid revascularization of multi-vessel coronary artery disease. His clinical and research interests include robotic cardiac surgery, hybrid revascularization of coronary arteries, valvular heart disease, and endovascular and open repair of aortic pathology (including aneurysms and dissections). He is involved in the transcatheter aortic valve repair program.
Dr. Taylor is chief of the Division of Cardiac Surgery at University of Maryland School of Medicine and director of coronary revascularization at University of Maryland Medical Center. He joined the University of Maryland faculty after leaving a busy private practice in York, Pennsylvania, where he performed the full array of cardiac surgery and was instrumental in developing and implementing an advanced endovascular aortic repair program. He was previously named a Baltimore magazine "Top Doctor" in the specialty of cardiac surgery.
Dr. Taylor received his medical degree and a degree in health administration from the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia. After completing his general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery residency, he stayed on as an assistant professor of cardiac surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He completed a minimally invasive cardiac surgery fellowship in Aalst, Belgium, in 2006.
