Dr. Richard Cook

Dr. Richard Cook is the director of the Centre for Minimally Invasive Surgery at DCI. He is a Clinical Professor of Surgery at UBC. At Vancouver General Hospital, he is Director of Minimal Access and Robotically-Assisted Cardiac Surgery.

His clinical and research interests include minimally invasive cardiac surgery, robotically assisted coronary artery bypass surgery and transcatheter treatment of heart valve disease. His work encompasses mitral and tricuspid valve repair and replacement through mini-thoracotomy approaches, as well as atrial septal defect repair.