Providence Heart Institute Advanced Heart Failure & Transplant Center - Spokane

Jennifer Smith is a certified registered nurse anesthetist located in Spokane, WA.

Dr. Forrester is a board-certified cardiothoracic surgeon with a breadth of experience in heart and chest surgery, including treating aneurysms (a bulging or ballooning in the artery). He is one of few cardiothoracic surgeons in the United States that perform aortic valve repair procedures. Other areas of specialization for Dr. Forrester include aortic root reconstruction, aortic valve repair and replacements, and Ross Procedures, a cardiac surgery in which a diseased aortic valve is replaced with the patient's own pulmonary valve. Dr. Forrester completed his residency at Stanford University Hospital and Clinic before moving to Spokane in 2013 to join the Heart Institute Team at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center.

Dr. McCarthy specializes in surgery of the aorta and the aortic valve including aortic valve repair, bicuspid aortic valve repair, valve-sparing aortic root replacement, transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), ascending aorta and aortic root replacement, aortic arch replacement, endovascular repair of the aortic arch and descending thoracic aorta (TEVAR), coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), multi-arterial and total arterial CABG. Dr. McCarthy is also involved in research at Providence Sacred Heart as well as multi-institutional collaborations in the field of aortic surgery and aortic valve repair.