In addition to developing innovative methods of performing cardiac surgery, including complex coronary revascularization, repairing thoracic aortic aneurysms and repairing and/or replacing damaged heart valves, the members of Emory's cardiovascular surgeon team have become international experts and teachers of such minimally invasive procedures as off-pump coronary artery bypass and endoscopic atraumatic coronary artery bypass, the most minimally invasive bypass surgery presently available.

Consistently ranked among the nation's top academic centers in clinical volume, the division's clinical services of the Emory Healthcare system are adult cardiac surgery, congenital cardiac surgery, adult cardiac transplantation, adult lung transplantation, and general thoracic surgery. The pediatric cardiothoracic surgery program is based at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston.

	Heart transplant (Emory's 500th adult heart transplant and Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston's 200th pediatric heart were performed in March 2008)
	Minimally invasive coronary bypass surgery (Emory's cardiovascular surgeon team performed Georgia's first closed chest, off-pump cardiac bypass in 2003)
	Off-pump coronary artery bypass
	Minimally invasive mitral valve repair and replacement
	Valve-sparing aortic root replacement
	Revascularization of acute myocardial infarction
	Trans-myocardial laser revascularization for angina
	Left ventricular remodeling for heart failure with left ventricular aneurysm
	Complex redo valve and coronary bypass surgery
	Resection of thoracic and thoraco-abdominal aneurysms
	Staged treatment of hypoplastic left heart syndrome
	Early complete repair of complex intracardiac congenital lesions
	Implantation of ventricular assist devices as a bridge to heart transplant or as a form of destination therapy for patients who are not eligible for or unwilling to undergo a transplant
	Tracheal surgery
	Lung transplant
	Lung-volume reduction surgery
	Lobectomy, bilobectomy, pneumonectomy (minimally invasive and open)
	Colon interposition for esophageal replacement
	Resection of advanced pulmonary malignancies
	Extrapleural pneumonectomy for mesothelioma
	Esophagectomy (minimally invasive and open)
	Microthoracoscopic sympathectomy for hyperhidrosis
	Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery