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Brian L. Tell, MD
Cardiothoracic surgeon
My specialties:
- Thoracic surgery
Professional interests:
- Cardiac surgery
- Cardiovascular diseases
- Coronary artery bypass grafting surgery
- Coronary artery disease
- Heart valve diseases
- Heart valve surgery
- Mitral valve repair
- Vascular surgical procedures
- Da vinci robotic surgery
I received my medical degree from the University of Paris, presenting my doctoral thesis (Inotropic support in Septic Shock) in 1980. Following my internship at Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, I completed my general surgery training at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, New Brunswick, New Jersey (1985) and my cardiothoracic surgery residency at Long Island Jewish Hillside Medical Center in 1987. Returning to Paris for additional training in transplantation and artificial heart, I joined what was then Midwestern Heart and Lung Clinic in Minneapolis, moving to Bloomington with my wife, Linda, and two young daughters.
I developed an expertise in "beating heart off-pump" coronary artery bypass surgery and mitral valve repair, but I enjoy doing the gamut of heart operations.
My interest in medicine was influenced by my father, a general practitioner, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, with whom I would often make "house-calls" at a time when those were still the norm. Years later, I followed in my father's footsteps, helping patients and trying to make their quality of life better.
Credentials
- MD
Board-certified specialties
- Thoracic surgery
Personal interests
- Cooking
- Golf
- Photography
Educational institutions
- Université de Paris, Faculté de Médecine de Créteil, Paris, France
Memberships
- American College of Cardiology
- American College of Chest Physicians
- American College of Surgeons
- International Society for Heart Transplantation
- Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery
- Society Thoracic Surgeons
Current licenses and certifications
- Medical licenses: Minnesota, New York & New Jersey
Internships
- Beth Israel Medical Center
Residencies
- Beth Israel Medical Center (general surgery)
- Long Island Jewish Hillside Medical Center (cardiothoracic surgery)
Fellowships
- Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center (cardiac transplantation)
- Hopital La Pitie - Paris (cardiac transplantation)
- Long Island Jewish Hospital, New Hyde Park, NY Cardiothoracic Surgical Residency 1985-1987
Years of experience
- 33
Additional languages spoken
- French
Hospital affiliations
- Mercy Hospital
- United Hospital
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- Allina Health | Aetna
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota
- HealthPartners
- Medica
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- SelectCare/LaborCare
- UCare
- UnitedHealthcare
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- Medicaid/Medicare
- Aetna
- America's PPO
- First Health/Coventry
- CIGNA
- Humana
- Hennepin Health (formerly Metropolitan Health Plan)
- PrimeWest
- South Country Health Alliance
- United Behavioral Health
- Wisconsin Physician Services (WPS)