Jose R. Rodriguez, MD

  • Cardiac Surgery

Locations

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

About me

Specialties

  • Cardiac Surgery

Areas of focus

  • Robotic and other minimally invasive approaches to heart and thoracic surgery
  • Coronary revascularization
  • Atrial fibrillation (AFib) MAZE surgery
  • Surgical treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (septal myectomy)
  • Aortic valve repair and replacement
  • Mitral valve repair and replacement
  • Tricuspid valve surgery
  • Pericardial disease surgery
  • Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG)

Titles and faculty positions

  • Director, Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery and Quality
  • Associate Professor of Surgery, Geisel School of Medicine, Dartmouth

Year joined

  • 2025

Department websites

Education

Medical school

  • MD, Doctor of Medicine, University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine, San Juan, PR, 1999

Residency

  • General Surgery, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, 2005
  • General Surgery, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2002

Fellowship

  • Cardiothoracic Surgery, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham AL, 2007

Graduate

  • MHS, Master of Health Care Delivery Science, Dartmouth College Tuck School of Business, Hanover, NH, 2025

Board certification

  • Cardiothoracic Surgery
  • General Surgery

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