Eddie W Manning, MD

My name is Dr. Eddie W. Manning III, and I am an assistant professor of surgery in the division of cardiovascular surgery at the University of Florida College of Medicine and the North Florida/South Georgia Malcolm Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

My practice is focused on adult cardiac and thoracic surgery, transcatheter aortic valve replacement and percutaneous mitral valve repair. I established the minimally invasive thoracic surgery program within the North Florida/South Georgia Malcolm Randall Veterans Affairs Medical Center, utilizing conventional video-assisted thoracoscopic techniques and the da Vinci robotic platform. This development has led to a decreased length of stay for patients, improved safety of thoracic operations and increased patient satisfaction. The minimally invasive cardiothoracic surgery program in the Gainesville VA medical center has the highest volume of all VA Medical Centers Nationally.

I earned my bachelor’s degree in science from Cornell University, a bachelor’s in nursing from the University of Pennsylvania where I graduated Magna Cum Laude and my medical degree from Temple University. My general surgery residency, postdoctoral research fellowship in cardiothoracic transplant surgery and cardiothoracic surgery fellowship were completed at the University of Miami, Jackson Memorial Hospital where I was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society.

I was honored to serve as a member of the United States Army Medical Corps and retired from military service as a lieutenant colonel. I served in the U.S. Army Reserves, 348th General Hospital from 1995 to 2001, and was on active duty from 2011 to 2013 – first as the chief of general surgery at Reynolds Army Community Hospital, Fort Sill, Oklahoma and then as commander of the 14th Forward Surgical Element, Task Force Medical South during a combat deployment to Camp Dwyer, Afghanistan.

My research spans basic science research related to the modification of cellular changes secondary to ischemia-reperfusion injury and local pressure changes to selected clinical areas in adult cardiac surgery. In collaboration with colleagues from many scientific and medical disciplines I have participated in published works in Circulation, the Journal of Vascular Research, Human Gene Therapy, the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and the Journal of Cardiology and Therapy.

I am particularly committed to graduate medical education and serve as the program director of the Thoracic and Cardiovascular Fellowship programs and also serve as the educational director for the traditional three-year cardiothoracic surgery fellowship. Additionally, I have developed a six-year integrated thoracic surgery training program with a new curriculum that involves many of the surgical and non-surgical specialties within the University of Florida Health System.