Dr. Lyle D. Joyce, MD PhD
Technical Advisory Board Member
Dr. Joyce has been practicing in the field of cardiothoracic surgery for more than 40 years, focusing on heart transplantation and the surgical treatment of heart failure. He is world-renowned in the field of cardiothoracic surgery having been on the team that implanted the first permanent artificial heart in a man, and was the first surgeon ever to use a total artificial heart in a woman.
Since 2017, Dr. Joyce has served as the Section Chief of Adult Cardiac Surgery, Surgery, Cardiothoracic, Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin. Prior thereto, he served as Professor of Surgery and Director of the Advanced Heart Failure and Assist Device Program, Surgery, Cardiovascular, Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota. Together with his son David who is a respected cardiologist in his own right, Dr. Joyce co-authored “Mechanical Circulatory Support: Principles and Applications”, an all-in-one text-book guide to mechanical assist devices for the treatment of heart failure. Published in 2011, it addresses all of the clinical scenarios encountered by the health care team during the pre-operative, intra-operative, and post-operative periods following device implantation.
