Johannes Bonatti, MD

Johannes Bonatti is Director of Robotic Cardiac Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Heart and Vascular Institute and Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of Pittsburgh. He has performed cardiac surgery using robotic devices since 2001 and has carried out 1000+ cases. He introduced and ran robotic heart surgery programs at Innsbruck Medical University, the University of Maryland, the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, the Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and most recently re-introduced robotic cardiac surgery at UPMC. He held academic and leadership positions at these institutions and performed several “world firsts” including the first successful quadruple totally endoscopic coronary artery bypass grafting procedure in robotic fashion. Dr. Bonatti has published more than 300 papers and has given scientific talks at meetings around the world. He was President of the Minimally Invasive Robotics Association (MIRA) from 2011-2012 and as President of the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS) during the 2017/2018 term. He is currently serving on the task force for robotic cardiac surgery at the Society of Thoracic Surgeons (STS,) and leads the corresponding working group at the ISMICS.