{"id":142236,"date":"2026-02-03T18:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142236\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T18:39:07","slug":"connect-with-the-experts-tackling-heart-disease-americas-1-killer-fiu-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142236\/","title":{"rendered":"Connect with the experts tackling heart disease, America\u2019s #1 killer | FIU News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicine.fiu.edu\/about\/faculty-and-staff\/profiles\/makoto-hashimoto.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dr. Makoto Hashimoto<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Professor<br \/>Cardiovascular Sciences<br \/>Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine <\/p>\n<p>Dr.\u00a0Makoto Hashimoto is an internationally acclaimed cardiovascular surgeon and leader in robotic heart surgery. He serves as professor\u00a0and\u00a0director of robotic cardiac surgery at Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine\u00a0and performs surgery\u00a0at Baptist Health Miami Cardiac &amp; Vascular Institute, specializing in robotic and minimally invasive cardiac surgery, including coronary artery revascularization. He treats\u00a0conditions such as valvular heart disease,\u00a0ischemic heart disease,\u00a0cardiac arrhythmia, and adult congenital cardiac disease.\u00a0Since 2025, Hashimoto has performed over 100 robotic heart surgeries, making the Baptist Health program the largest by volume in Florida.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Office:\u00a0305-348-9280\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>Email: <a class=\"BCX8 Hyperlink SCXW133641827\" href=\"https:\/\/news.fiu.edu\/2026\/mailto:dkalfa@fiu.edu\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><a class=\"BCX8 Hyperlink SCXW1519963\" href=\"https:\/\/news.fiu.edu\/2026\/mailto:mhashimo@fiu.edu\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">mhashimo@fiu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr. Makoto Hashimoto ProfessorCardiovascular SciencesHerbert Wertheim College of Medicine Dr.\u00a0Makoto Hashimoto is an internationally acclaimed cardiovascular surgeon and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-142236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}