Cary S. Passik, MD, is currently the Chief, section of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Praxair Regional Heart and Vascular Center at Danbury Hospital of the Western Connecticut Health Network.

A native of New York, he graduated from CCNY, Sophie Davis Center for Biomedical Education , summa cum laude, in 1978 and the NYU School of Medicine in 1980. He completed a residency in general surgery at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, NYC from 1980-1985 and a fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery from 1985-1988 at The Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

From 1988 until the present he is an attending cardiothoracic surgeon at Yale- New Haven Hospital, where he also served as the Associate Section Chief of Cardiac Surgery (2000-2007) and was a Clinical Instructor in Surgery at the Yale School of Medicine. He is now Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at the University of Vermont College of Medicine, and Assistant Professor of Surgery at NY Medical College. He also serves as a consultant for Covidien, Ivy Biomedical Corp, Cardiopulmonary Corp., and the Gerson Lehrman Group.

He is involved in new technology development with particular interest in wireless transmission of patient parameters for safer patient care. He serves as a PI on the NIH sponsored TRIBE-AKI evaluating new biomarkers in renal dysfunction occurring at the time of heart surgery.