Deyanira J. Prastein, MD

About Deyanira J. Prastein, MD

Dr. Deyanira Prastein, or “Dee” as she likes to be called, earned her medical degree from Virginia Commonwealth University Medical College of Virginia School of Medicine in Richmond, VA. She did her residency in general surgery at the University of Maryland School of Medicine in Baltimore, MD, and her cardiothoracic surgery training at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston Salem, NC. She pursued further training in advanced heart failure surgical therapies with a fellowship in heart & lung transplantation and mechanical circulatory support (ECMO, LVAD, etc) at the Royal Papworth Hospital in Cambridge, UK, and Duke University Medical Center in Durham, NC. Dr. Prastein is board certified in cardiothoracic surgery. She is a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, and specializes in all aspects of cardiothoracic surgery care including CABG, minimally-invasive valve surgery, TAVR and aortic aneurysms. She is fluent in English and Spanish.