Peteris Stradins, MD, PhD
Head of the Cardiac Surgery Center, Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Riga Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Riga Stradins University, Latvia

Peteris Stradins is a leading Latvian cardiac surgeon who completed his residency training in Germany, Lithuania, Italy, the Netherlands, and France – where he specialized in congenital cardiac surgery at Hôpital Marie Lannelongue under Professor Claude Planché. He obtained his PhD in 2004 and has served as a professor since 2020.

He established Latvia’s mitral valve repair program in 2004, performed the country’s first transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in 2009, and contributed to Latvia’s first heart transplant in 2002. He leads the adult congenital cardiac surgery and hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) surgical programs. He has also established acute cardiac surgery services in country, modernized outpatient cardiac care, and developed the national minimally invasive cardiac surgery program. He is actively involved in international research collaborations.