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Dr. Martin J. Kaplitt is one of the world's leading cardiac surgeons. On January 12, 1967, Dr. Kaplitt and a team of cardiac surgeons at Downstate Medical Center performed the first operation in New York State to clean out a blocked coronary artery. Since that time Dr. Kaplitt, who attended Cornell University and the State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, has written more than seventy papers and two textbooks on the subject of heart and blood vessel diseases. In 1971, Dr. Martin J. Kaplitt established the first open heart surgical program at North Shore University Hospital. He was Chief of the Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgical Service at North Shore for the next seven years before entering private practice in 1978. To enable better diagnoses of heart disease, Dr. Kaplitt opened one of the first comprehensive cardiovascular diagnostic centers and has lectured and written extensively on the subject. In 1984 Dr. Kaplitt founded Advanced Medical Imaging Corporation (AMIC), a publicly traded company. He currently is a Director of the Trust Company of New Jersey and is founding director of Endovascular Surgical Devices, Inc. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, the American College of Cardiology, and a member on numerous surgical societies. Dr. Kaplitt is currently Associate Attending in Surgery at North Shore University Hospital and a clinical associate professor of surgery at Cornell University Medical College.
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