Samaritan Heart adds valve specialist Ly to cardiac team
The Samaritan Heart & Vascular Institute in Corvallis, Ore., has added Truc Ly, MD, an aortic and mitral valve repair specialist, to their cardiovascular team.

He completed general surgery residency training at Saint Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich., cardiothoracic residency training at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio and an advanced fellowship focusing on mitral valve repair at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Ly is board certified in general and cardiothoracic surgery and a member of the American College of Surgeons, the American Medical Association, the American College of Thoracic Surgeons, the Frederick A. Coller Society and the Aust Society, according to Samaritan.

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