Affiliation
NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia
Primary Specialty
Interventional Cardiology (Board Certified)
More Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease (Board Certified)
Internal Medicine (Board Certified)
Education/Training
Medical School - Yale School of Medicine
Internship - Yale-New Haven Hospital
Residency - Yale-New Haven Hospital
Fellowship - Yale-New Haven Hospital
Areas of expertise
Cardiac Catheterization
Balloon Angioplasty
Angioplasty
Invasive Cardiology
Coronary Artery Disease
Interventional Cardiology
Diagnostic Angiography
Martin B. Leon, M.D., is Professor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Associate Director of the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, and Chairman of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation in New York City. An internationally renowned interventional cardiologist, Dr. Leon has had an important impact on almost every significant development in the field of interventional vascular therapy over the past 20 years. He has performed more than 7,000 interventional procedures and has co-authored over 1,100 publications. Dr. Leon is also the Founder and Director of Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics—the largest dedicated meeting in interventional vascular therapy in the world.
Dr. Leon has been a national principal investigator of more than 20 major clinical interventional trials in the United States. He is a featured lecturer at international symposia, most recently focusing on the areas of drug-eluting stents and transcatheter valve therapy. Dr. Leon has also received six international career achievement awards, and recently was given an honorary degree from the University of Athens.
Dr. Leon was previously the Director of Cardiovascular Research and Education at the Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute in New York City. He also has served as Director of Cardiovascular Research at the Washington Cardiology Center at the Washington Hospital Center and as Clinical Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC. He was a Clinical Associate, Senior Investigator, and Director of the Catheterization Laboratories in the Cardiology Branch of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. He was a Founder of both the Washington Cardiology Center and the Cardiology Research Foundation in Washington, DC.
Dr. Leon received his medical degree from the Yale School of Medicine, and completed his internship, residency in internal medicine, and fellowship training in cardiology at the Yale-New Haven Hospital.
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