Staff Report
Published Jan. 19, 2012
Lexington Medical Center announced the opening of Lexington Cardiovascular, a hospital physician practice that will treat patients requiring cardiac, thoracic and vascular procedures including open heart surgery.
 Dr. Jeffrey Travis |
Lexington Cardiovascular will be home to Dr. Jeffrey Travis, Lexington Medical Center’s new heart surgeon.
Travis is a South Carolina native who completed his undergraduate degree at Clemson University and earned his medical degree at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine.
Travis completed residencies in general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston-Salem, N.C. He joins the Lexington Medical Center network and Lexington Cardiovascular from Columbus Cardiovascular Surgery in Columbus, Ga. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery, American Board of Thoracic Surgery and the National Board of Medical Examiners.
Victor Gomez will serve as a physician assistant at Lexington Cardiovascular. Gomez graduated from Midwestern State University and the University of Texas. He received a graduate degree in the Surgical Physician Assistant program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Before coming to Lexington Medical Center, Gomez worked as a cardiovascular physician assistant in Greenville, N.C., Florence and Columbia.
Beginning this spring, Travis will perform heart surgery at Lexington Medical Center as part of Lexington Medical Heart Center, a Duke Medicine affiliate.
Lexington Cardiovascular is located inside Lexington Medical Park 1 on the hospital campus in West Columbia at 2728 Sunset Blvd., Suite 101.
Lexington Medical Center, in West Columbia, anchors a county-wide health care network that includes six community medical centers throughout Lexington County and employs a staff of 5,300.
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