Robert Steffen

Dr. Robert J. Steffen is a cardiothoracic surgeon at Abbott Northwestern Hospital and a member of the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation board of directors. He received his medical degree from the University of Minnesota Medical School, has been in practice for more than 10 years and was featured in 2021 as a “Top Doctors: Rising Star” in Mpls.St.Paul Magazine.

Dr. Steffen completed his undergraduate studies in biomedical engineering at Northwestern University and his postgraduate training at the Cleveland Clinic. During his training, he spent a year as a research fellow in the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, served as chief resident in his final year of cardiothoracic surgery training and received the Charles Bryan Award for Clinical Excellence, and he was a clinical instructor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, where he received multiple teaching awards.

He has particular interests in the surgical treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease, aortic disease and heart failure. Dr. Steffen has published numerous peer‑reviewed manuscripts, book chapters and review articles and has spoken locally, nationally and internationally on topics in cardiac surgery.