Dr. Marijan Koprivanac

Dr. Marijan Koprivanac is a cardiothoracic surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic. He earned his doctorate in medicine from the University of Zagreb School of Medicine in Croatia and a Master’s in Clinical Research from Case Western Reserve University. During his master’s program, he served as a research fellow in the Cleveland Clinic Department of Thoracic and  Cardiovascular Surgery and subsequently entered a six-year surgical residency at the Cleveland  Clinic. 

After completing his residency, Dr. Koprivanac advanced his training with a two-year cardiothoracic surgery fellowship at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He returned to the Cleveland Clinic in 2021 as an aortic clinical associate in the Department of Thoracic and  Cardiovascular Surgery and was appointed a full member of the surgical staff in 2022. 

Dr. Koprivanac has presented at national and international medical meetings, including the  Society for Thoracic Surgery, American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology and  International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation. He has authored scientific papers published in leading surgical journals, authored chapters in surgical textbooks and is a manuscript reviewer for The Annals of Thoracic Surgery. 

Dr. Koprivanac specializes in adult cardiac surgery, with a focus on aortic valve and bicuspid valve repair, Ross procedure, surgery for thoracic aortic aneurysm and dissection (including endovascular approaches), complex aorta surgery, mitral valve repair, cardiac reoperations, the  David reimplantation procedure, cardiac surgery for Marfan’s and other connective tissue disorders, minimally invasive heart surgery, cardiac tumors, and endocarditis.