USF Division of Cardiothoracic and Transplantation Surgery

Dr. Lozonschi received his medical degree from the G.T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Iasi, Romania, before completing a general surgery internship at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. He subsequently completed a general surgery residency at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and a cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. Before joining USF Health, Dr. Lozonschi served as the Director of Surgical Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. He also has experience as the Surgical Director of Heart Transplantation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital. Dr. Lozonschi's expertise is in robotic and minimally invasive cardiac surgery, heart transplant and cardiothoracic surgery. He has received multiple research grants from the National Institutes of Health and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, and has won numerous awards for his clinical care, research, and presentations at National professional societies. Dr. Lozonschi has published over 65 peer reviewed manuscripts, abstracts and book chapters. His has nine patents, and in 2017 was the first surgeon in the U.S. to implant the latest Heartmate 3 device in the veteran population.

Dr. Lozonschi was the first in Florida to complete a robotic mitral valve repair.