Dr Sergei Mitnovetski gained his extensive experience at Monash Medical Centre, St. Vincent’s, Austin, The Alfred and Royal Children’s Hospitals (Melbourne, Australia), John Hunter Hospital (Newcastle, Australia), Bristol Heart Institute (Bristol Royal Infirmary, United Kingdom), Toronto General Hospital (Canada), The Townsville Hospital and Gold Coast University Hospital (Queensland, Australia) and Geelong Hospital.

Dr Mitnovetski performs a variety of cardiac and thoracic operations and surgical procedures, and in the past he was heavily involved in transplantation surgery/ECMO support and congenital cardiac surgery. He monitors and provides care to critically ill patients in intensive care units as well as to ward patients on a regular basis.

Dr Mitnovetski also have an extensive experience in managing chest trauma. In cardiac surgery Dr Mitnovetski performs:

• Coronary artery bypass graft surgery with total arterial revascularisation whenever possible
• Aortic, mitral and tricuspid valve surgery (repair or replacement)
• Aortic root surgery 
• Repair of ascending aortic dissection and aneurysm (with circulatory arrest, with or without valve replacement and or coronary re-implantation)
• Surgical ablation of atrial fibrillation
• Septal myectomy
• Repair of basic adult congenital cardiac defects
• Implantation of permanent pacemakers

In Thoracic surgery Dr Mitnovetski performs:

• VATS (minimally invasive) and Open lobectomies and pneumonectomies with lymph node dissection
• VATS lung wedge resections, biopsies, pleurodesis and decortications
• Thoracoscopic sympathectomy
• Flexible and rigid bronchoscopy, mediastinoscopy
• Thymectomy