Staff Cardiac Surgeon, Coordinator of Academic Affairs, and Coordinator of the Hybrid Thoracoscopic Atrial Fibrillation Ablation Program.
University Department of Cardiac Surgery
Leipzig Heart Center
Dr. Mateo Marin-Cuartas is a cardiac surgeon in the University Department of Cardiac Surgery at the Leipzig Heart Center in Leipzig, Germany. He is board-certified in cardiac surgery and also trained in critical care medicine. Dr. Marin-Cuartas obtained his doctoral degree at the University of Leipzig in Leipzig, Germany, for his research on mitral valve disease, and completed a postdoctoral research fellowship in the Cardiothoracic Surgery Department at Stanford University in Stanford, California, with a focus on heart valve biomechanics. Dr. Marin-Cuartas is the coordinator of academic affairs and the hybrid atrial fibrillation ablation program at the cardiac surgery department in Leipzig. He holds leadership positions at the Latin American Association of Cardiac and Endovascular Surgery (LACES), serves as a member of the Mitral and Tricuspid Task Force at the European Association of Cardiothoracic Surgery (EACTS), and holds editorial positions at The European Journal of CardioThoracic Surgery (EJCTS), The Journal of the American Collegue of Cardiology (JACC) Case Reports, The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon (TCS), and CTSnet. Dr. Marín-Cuartas served as the EACTS-appointed Task Force coordinator of the 2025 ESC/EACTS Valvular Heart Disease Guidelines. His main research interests are valvular heart disease and infective endocarditis. Dr. Mateo Marin-Cuartas is an author on over 120 peer-reviewed publications and has been actively involved in mentoring several early-career researchers and doctoral students.
Clinical and academic training:
- Medical degree at CES University, Medellin, Colombia (2010-2016)
- Cardiac surgery and critical care residency at Leipzig Heart Center, Leipzig, Germany (2017-2024)
- Cardiac Surgery Board Certification (11/2024)
- Doctoral degree at Leipzig University School of Medicine, Leipzig, Germany (2020)
- Post-doctoral research fellowship at Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA (2020-2021)
Participation in scientific associations (selection):
- Member of the Board of Directors - LACES (2020-2025)
- Chair of the Residents Committee - LACES (2020-2025)
- Member of the EACTS Mitral and Tricuspid Valve Taskforce (Since 10/2024)
- EACTS-appointed Task Force coordinator of the 2025 ESC/EACTS Valvular Heart Disease Guidelines
Editorial positions:
- Associate editor - LACES (2021-2023)
- Editor-in-Chief - LACES (2023-2025)
- CTSNet JANS Editor (Since 10/2023)
- Assistant Editor - EJCTS (Since 05/2024)
- Associate Editor - EJCTS (Since 10/2025)
- Assistant Editor - JACC Case Reports (Since 05/2024)
- Cardiovascular Crowd Editor -The Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeon (TCS) (Since 10/2024)