Lexington Medical Center has announced the opening of Lexington Cardiovascular, a hospital physician practice that will treat patients requiring cardiac, thoracic, and vascular procedures including open heart surgery. Lexington Cardiovascular is one part of Lexington Medical Center’s new line of services offering complete cardiac care to the community.

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. He completed residencies in general surgery and cardiothoracic surgery at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center in Winston- Salem, North Carolina. He joins the Lexington Medical Center network and Lexington Cardiovascular from Columbus Cardiovascular Surgery in Columbus, Georgia. He is certified by the American Board of Surgery, American Board of Thoracic Surgery, and the National Board of Medical Examiners. Travis and his wife Sheila have three children.

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. He has more than 12 years experience in minimally invasive endoscopic vein harvesting, a procedure allowing the vein for coronary bypass surgery to be harvested from a keyhole incision in the leg. Gomez lives with his wife and daughter in Northeast 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 Boulevard, Suite 101.