现任泰达国际心血管病医院副院长、国家心脏大血管外科临床重点专科建设项目执行负责人、心脏大血管外科主任。北京协和医学院、天津大学、天津医科大学博士生导师。兼任中国医师协会心脏重症专业委员会副主任委员、中国医师协会心血管外科分会常务委员、中华医学会胸心血管外科分会委员。天津市医学会新生儿先天心脏病分会主任委员、天津市医学会心血管外科分会副主任委员。

自1986年9月大学毕业参加工作，先后在大连医科大学、北京协和医学院、香港大学医学院攻读硕士、博士学位。在美国俄亥俄州立大学哥伦布儿童医院、哈佛大学医学院波士顿儿童医院、哈佛大学医学院布莱根女子医院等多家国际著名心脏中心研修。

2008年，受美国胸外科协会、全美心脏外科医生继续教育委员会的委托，为美国心脏外科继续教育考试出题并作标准答案。积极开展国际学术交流活动，多次应邀参加国际心血管外科大会，在美国旧金山举办的第85届美国胸外科学会(AATS)年度大会上，作了题目为《全主动脉弓替换+带支架象鼻手术治疗急、慢性Stanford A型主动脉夹层的临床研究》专题报告，使国际胸心外科领域最权威的AATS大会讲坛上有了中国医生的声音，得到了国际同行的普遍认可和赞扬，为中国现代医学界赢得了荣誉。

从事心血管外科临床工作40年，刘志刚主刀完成各类心脏及大血管手术7000余例，几乎涵盖了所有先天性和获得性心脏病手术，其中包括：心脏移植、胸降主动脉及腹主动脉替换术、升主动脉及全主动脉弓替换＋“带支架象鼻”手术、Bentall's手术、Cabrol手术、David手术、CABG、多瓣膜修复与重建、多瓣膜替换联合房颤射频消融改良迷宫III手术，左室流出道疏通及主动脉根部扩大、心脏肿瘤切除等复杂术式。主刀实施的复杂先天性心脏病手术包括：动脉调转术、双调转手术、主动脉弓中断矫治术、完全型心内膜垫缺损矫治术、完全型肺静脉畸形引流矫治术、肺动脉融合术（UF手术)、Ebstein's畸形矫治术、冠状动脉起源于肺动脉矫治手术、右室双出口矫治术、法洛氏四联症根治术、主动脉缩窄矫治术、肺动脉瓣闭锁矫治术(右室流出道疏通+主肺动脉重建)、Fontan、Restalli手术、儿童主动脉瓣及二尖瓣修复术，右侧腋下小切口先心病矫治术、胸骨下段小切口心脏畸形矫治及瓣膜修复或替换手术、全胸腔镜下心脏手术等。

在新生儿、早产儿复杂先心病治疗领域，成功开展低胎龄、低体重早产儿复杂心脏病根治手术，同时应用体外生命支持系统保证患儿心、肺功能顺利恢复，使该项工作居于国内领先水平。手术对象涵盖87岁高龄患者到30周早产儿，体重仅1.3公斤。2013年领导开展胸腔镜辅助心脏直视手术填补天津市心血管外科技术空白；领导、主持新生儿和婴幼儿ECMO及急诊ECMO循环辅助工作，取得了突破性进展。

主要研究方向为深低温停循环状态下脑、脊髓重要器官保护，参与研发的具有完全自主独立知识产权的磁液悬浮离心式左心室辅助装置“火箭心”取得突破；。近5年作为课题负责人承担了国家及地方课题9项，发表SCI论文26篇，国内期刊论文32篇。作为北京协和医学院和天津医科大学的研究生导师，指导培养了十余名硕士、博士生，为国家培养了一大批合格的心血管外科专业人才。

先后荣获中国医师协会首届“白求恩式好医生”、“天津市劳模”、“天津市十佳医务工作者”、“天津市优秀科技工作者”。

ZhiGang Liu Name：ZhiGang Liu（Vice-president）

Specialty：Cardiovascular Surgery

Title：Chief Physician

Degree：Doctor

Liu Zhi Gang, Chief Cardiovascular Surgeon, Vice President of TEDA International Cardiovascular Hospital. He was deputy director of Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery Center Cardiovascular Institute (Fuwai Hospital). He graduated from Liaoning Medical College with Bachelor Degree in 1986, obtained his PhD degree from Cardiothoracic Surgery Department Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College in 2000. He has been visiting scholar/professor of many famous cardiovascular institutions such as University of Hong Kong Cardiovascular Surgery Dept. & Research Institute of Grantham Hospital, Ohio State University, Columbus Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Children’s Hospital, Boston Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He was assigned by American Association for Thoracic Surgery (AATS) and American Cardiac Surgeon Continuous Education Committee to design the examination papers of American cardiac surgeon continuous education program in January 2008. He was the first Chinese surgeon who gave the lecture on the 85th AATS annual meeting in San Francisco, U.S., 2005. The topic of the lecture is Should the “elephant trunk” be skeletonized? Total arch replacement combined with stented elephant trunk implantation for Stanford type A aortic dissection. Became the first voice be heard from China.

He has operated more than 5,000 surgeries and as main surgeon he finished more the 3000 surgeries over 20 years work in both adult and pediatric area, including one-stage total aortic replacement, descending thoracic aorta and abdominal aorta replacement, off- pump aortic arch replacement, ascending aorta and total aortic arch replacements, stented elephant trunk implantation, Bentall’s surgery, Cabrol surgery, David surgery, CABG, heart valve repair, multiple valves replacement combined with radiofrequency ablation for auricular fibrillation, left ventricle outflow tract clearance and aortic root enlarge, the removal of cardiac tumor.

The complicated congenial hear diseases he cured includes: Arterial switch operation, Complete type endocardial cushion defect correction, Complete anomalous pulmonary correction, UF surgery, radical correction of tetralogy of Fallot, correction of double outlet of right ventricle, correction of coarction of aorta, correction of pulmonary atresia, Fontan surgery, Pediatric aortic valve and mitral valve repair, video-assisted thoracoscopic and open chest surgery. The youngest patient: only 2 days old and 2.5 kg. The eldest patient: 87 years old.