Dr. Ivan David has been an attending surgeon in cardiothoracic surgery at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Paterson, NJ, St. Luke’s Hospital in New York, NY, and since May of 1989 at New Hanover Regional Medical Center in Wilmington, NC. He has also taught in the cardiac and surgery departments of Tel-Aviv University, Harvard Medical School and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. David is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Thoracic Surgery, and is licensed by the states of North Carolina, New York, New Jersey and South Carolina
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Quite literally, Dr. Ivan David has a world of experience. A native of Cluj, Romania, he emigrated to Israel in 1961. Dr. David earned his medical degree from the University of Padova in Italy, completed an internship and assistant cardiac surgery residency in Israel, and trained in many of the finest hospitals in America, including: St. Luke’s Hospital, NY, NY, where he completed his General Surgery residency (as assistant, senior and chief resident), a Fellowship in Cardiac Surgery, and obtained board certification in Cardiothoracic Surgery in 1985. Subsequently, Dr. David completed a Fellowship in Cardiac Pathology at Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Boston, MA, as well as a residency (where he was assistant and chief resident) in Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC.

Dr. David initiated his clinical practices in Paterson, NewJersey and St Lukes Hospital in New York City. In 1989 he moved to Wilmington, North Carolina to join a newly started Cardiothoracic Surgery practice, Coastal Thoracic Surgical Associates. He is widely published in his field and has lectured and presented extensively nationally and internationally. Dr. David's clinical expertise is in adult cardiac surgery specifically Mitral valve surgery, arrhythmia surgery and arterial myocardial revascularization.