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BryanLGH Cardiothoracic Surgery practice focuses on delivering the very best surgical techniques and most up-to-date technology in the operating room. Two cardiothoracic surgeons with more than 50 years of combined surgical experience comprise the surgical team assisted by highly qualified physician assistants and an advanced practice nurse.
BryanLGH Cardiothoracic Surgery physicians are Edward P. Raines, MD, and David Hughes, MD. Physician assistants are Derek L. Howell, PA-C, and Lance Krueger, PA-C. Nancy Steckelberg, APN, serves as advanced nurse practitioner.
The Practice
Over the years Drs. Raines and Hughes have proven to be innovators in cardiovascular and thoracic surgery. They bring to the Midwest such procedures as heart valve repair, the pulmonary autograft (tissue) aortic valve replacement (Ross procedure), minimally invasive cardiac and thoracic surgical approaches and robotic and endoscopic techniques. They are expertly skilled at performing many cardiovascular and cardiothoracic surgical procedures.
Assuring that patients are at the center of their service, the cardiothoracic surgeons at BryanLGH discuss with patients and their families the full range of surgical options in order to choose the approach that will result in the best outcome. They have an interest in developing and using the newest surgical procedures so that their patients return to as normal a lifestyle as possible.
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Edward Raines, MD, FACS, JD
Dr. Raines attended the University of Nebraska College of Law and received his medical degree from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine. He then attended the University of Utah Affiliated Hospitals in Salt Lake City for his general surgery residency, serving as Chief Resident, as well as completing his fellowship in cardiothoracic surgery.
Dr. Raines specializes in minimally invasive cardiac surgery, robotic thoracic surgery, and mitral valve repair. He is among fewer than 10 surgeons in the country successfully performing the Ross heart valve replacement surgery. Additionally, Dr. Raines has been the principle investigator of several national research studies in cardiac surgery and artificial hearts.
Dr. Raines is board certified by the American Board of Surgeons and American Board of Thoracic Surgery; he is also a member of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Network, the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery and the Society of Thoracic Surgeons. |
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David Hughes, MD
Dr. Hughes attended the Baylor College of Medicine and was a general surgery resident and later a thoracic surgery resident at the University of Michigan Hospitals in Ann Arbor. He completed a fellowship in cardiovascular surgical research at the Texas Heart Institute in Houston where he helped investigate the potential for nuclear-powered artificial hearts.
Since finishing residency, Dr. Hughes has served as Chief of the Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery Division at Creighton University School of Medicine, as assistant clinical professor of surgery at the University of Nebraska College of Medicine and as Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Clarkson Hospital in Omaha. Dr. Hughes specializes in valve surgery, coronary artery bypass graft surgery, aortic root surgery, and surgical treatment of lung cancer. He is board certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery.
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