
Cardiology Research Faculty
NYU Langone investigators in the Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology include some of the most prestigious researchers in the field.

Anthony Aizer, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Expertise: lifestyle modification for atrial fibrillation; ablation of atrial fibrillation; implantable cardioverter-defibrillators; cardiac sarcoidosis; ablation of ventricular tachycardia

Carlos L. Alviar, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Director, Coronary Care Unit, NYC Health + Hospitals/Bellevue
Expertise: treatments for Coronavirus-19 disease

Leon Axel, MD, PhD
Professor, Departments of Medicine, Neuroscience and Physiology, and Radiology
Expertise: cardiac MRI image acquisition and image analysis method development; applications to studies of cardiac physiology and pathophysiology

Anvar Babaev, MD, PhD
Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine
Director, Endovascular Interventions, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Expertise: coronary and peripheral arterial disease; vascular biology; revascularization

Sripal Bangalore, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine
Expertise: invasive approach in patients with stable ischemic heart disease and substantial ischemia and chronic kidney disease

Chirag R. Barbhaiya, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Expertise: atrial fibrillation; ventricular tachycardia; ablation

Tessa J. Barrett, PhD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Expertise: the myeloid-platelet axis during inflammation and cardiovascular diseases

Jeffrey S. Berger, MD
Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Surgery
Expertise: platelet and hypercoagulable mechanisms of cardiovascular disease; perioperative platelet activity regulation; clinical and platelet response to antiplatelet and antithrombotic therapeutics; personalized medicine using the platelet phenotype

Marina Cerrone, MD
Research Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Expertise: arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy; calcium cycling and cardiac rhythm; Brugada syndrome; catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia

Larry A. Chinitz, MD
The Alvin Benjamin and Kenneth Coyle Sr. Family Professor of Medicine and Cardiac Electrophysiology, Department of Medicine
Clinical Director, Cardiology
Director, Heart Rhythm Center and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology Fellowship
Expertise: implantable defibrillator- and catheter-based therapies for cardiac dysrhythmias; atrial fibrillation pathophysiology; electroanatomic mapping systems for catheter ablation of atrial arrhythmias

Bruce N. Cronstein, MD
The Dr. Paul R. Esserman Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine
Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Pathology
Director, Program in Collaborative Research, Clinical and Translational Science Institute, and Division of Translational Medicine
Expertise: adenosine metabolism and receptors in rheumatologic diseases; wound healing; hepatic fibrosis; vascular disease

Mario Delmar, MD, PhD
The Patricia M. and Robert H. Martinsen Professor of Cardiology, Department of Medicine
Professor, Department of Cell Biology
Expertise: disruption of mechanical function and the electrical stability of the heart; cardiomyocytes and desmosomes; adherens junctions, gap junctions, and sodium channels

John A. Dodson, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and Population Health
Director, Geriatric Cardiology Program
Expertise: better decision-making and patient-centered care in geriatric cardiology

Edward A. Fisher, MD, PhD, MPH
The Leon H. Charney Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine
Professor, Departments of Cell Biology, Microbiology, and Pediatrics
Expertise: cell biology of hepatic lipid and lipoprotein metabolism; the regression of atherosclerosis

Glenn I. Fishman, MD
The William Goldring Professor of Medicine, Department of Medicine
Professor, Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology and Neuroscience and Physiology
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Medicine
Director, Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology
Expertise: cardiovascular biology and disease; gap junction channels and the regulation of cardiac impulse propagation; cardiac conduction system development and disease; cardiac stem cell biology; ischemia–reperfusion injury

Michael S. Garshick, MD
Instructor, Department of Medicine
Expertise: cardiovascular disease prevention; inflammation; cardiovascular manifestations of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis; endothelial dysfunction

Dan G. Halpern, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Medical Director, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Program
Expertise: congenital heart disease; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; Eisenmenger syndrome; Marfan syndrome

Sean P. Heffron, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Expertise: weight loss in obesity and the effect on cardiometabolic risk factors

Judith S. Hochman, MD
The Harold Snyder Family Professor of Cardiology, Department of Medicine
Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Sciences
Co-Director, Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Director, Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center
Associate Director, Leon H Charney Division of Cardiology
Expertise: cardiogenic shock; coronary artery disease; acute and chronic ischemic heart disease; percutaneous coronary intervention

Douglas S. Holmes, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Expertise: cellular mechanisms; cardiac arrhythmias; sudden death; atrial fibrillation

James Horowitz, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Director, Medical Unit 15 Cardiac Care Unit, Kimmel Pavilion
Expertise: cardiogenic shock; heart assist devices

Lior Jankelson, MD, PhD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Director, Inherited Arrhythmia Program, Heart Rhythm Center
Expertise: cardiovascular genetics; long QT syndrome; Brugada syndrome; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia; arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy; ventricular tachycardia

Stuart D. Katz, MD
The Helen L. and Martin S. Kimmel Professor of Advanced Cardiac Therapeutics, Department of Medicine
Director, NYU Langone Health Heart Failure Program
Expertise: new treatments for heart failure; heart failure pathophysiology; vascular physiology; iron storage biology

Eugene E. Kim, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Faculty Coordinator, Cardiovascular Research Elective
Expertise: the cardiac ventricular conduction system; lipomatous atrial septal hypertrophy; peripheral vessel embolization

Chengzu Long, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology
Assistant Professor, Department of Neuroscience and Physiology
Expertise: muscular dystrophy

Daniele Massera, MD
Clinical Instructor, Department of Medicine
Expertise: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; bone metabolism and heart valve calcification; echocardiography and PET/CT imaging

Kathryn J. Moore, PhD
The Jean and David Blechman Professor of Cardiology, Department of Medicine
Professor, Department of Cell Biology
Expertise: inflammatory mechanisms of atherosclerosis; regulation of cholesterol metabolism; the role of positive and negative guidance cues in leukocyte trafficking

Gregory E. Morley, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Neuroscience and Physiology
Expertise: arrhythmogenic role of dysregulation of cardiac gap junctions; mechanisms responsible for the developmental changes in impulse initiation and conduction within the sinus node and atria

Jonathan Newman, MD, MPH
The Eugene Braunwald, MD, Assistant Professor of Cardiology, Department of Medicine
Expertise: diabetes treatments for cardiovascular risk reduction; peripheral vascular disease in diabetes; diabetic dyslipidemia

David S. Park, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Expertise: advanced cardiac mapping; conduction transcriptional program in cardiomyocytes; cardiac electrophysiology

Sunil V. Rao, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine
Director, Interventional Cardiology for NYU Langone Health System and Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Tisch Hospital
Expertise: complex coronary intervention; transradial coronary intervention; clinical trials; implementation science; outcomes research

Louai Razzouk, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Head, Quality Assurance, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Tisch Hospital
Expertise: management of patients with coronary artery disease and diabetes mellitus; overlap of atherosclerosis in different vascular beds; process of in-stent restenosis in the lower extremities

Alex Reyentovich, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Medical Director, Heart Transplant Program
Clinical Director, Heart Failure Program
Medical Director, Left Ventricular Assist Devise Program
Expertise: heart transplantation; novel therapeutics and device therapy to treat heart failure

Harmony R. Reynolds, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Associate Director, Cardiovascular Clinical Research Center
Expertise: heart disease in women; myocardial infarction; takotsubo syndrome

Tajinderpal Saraon, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Expertise: heart failure; ventricular assist device support

Muhamed Saric, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Medicine
Director, Non-Invasive Cardiology Laboratory
Expertise: three-dimensional echocardiography; structural heart disease; stress echocardiography; contrast echocardiography

Binita Shah, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Director, Internal Medicine Residency Research
Expertise: patient outcomes in acute coronary syndrome; percutaneous coronary intervention

Mark V. Sherrid, MD
Professor, Department of Medicine
Director, Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Program
Expertise: unresolved challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Nathaniel R. Smilowitz, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Expertise: myocardial infarction; coronary artery disease

Alan F. Vainrib, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Expertise: three-dimensional cardiac imaging

Mathew R. Williams, MD
Associate Professor, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Director, Clinical Operations of Cardiovascular Service Line, Tisch Hospital and Kimmel Pavilion
Director, Chronic Venous Insufficiency, Structural Heart Disease Program
Chief, Division of Adult Cardiac Surgery
Expertise: aortic valve stenosis; mitral valve regurgitation; transcatheter aortic valve replacement

Eugene Yuriditzky, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Associate Director, Cardiac Care Unit
Expertise: cardiovascular complications of COVID-19