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Martin B. Leon, MD is a professor and chief innovation officer at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and a leader in interventional cardiovascular medicine. He has participated in over 50 clinical trials, founded the Cardiovascular Research Foundation and TCT conference, and performed over 10,000 interventional procedures.
Mar 15, 2019 · Martin B. Leon, MD, a pioneer in the development of minimally invasive therapies for individuals with heart disease, will be honored with the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Award by the American College of Cardiology (ACC) at its 68th annual scientific sessions in New Orleans.
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My parents were immigrants to the USA and did not have a background in medicine and my reasons for choosing medicine as a profession were intensely personal. During my childhood, I was exposed to family illness, and I witnessed first-hand the dramatic effects on my parents and siblings. I made a bold statement at the age of six that I would try to ...
Again, for personal reasons initially relating to the death of my grandmother, who had a heart attack and literally died in my arms. That emotional motivation led to a fascination with heart disease, from diagnosis to therapy. At that time, the high mortality and morbidity associated with heart disease was not adequately addressed with meaningful d...
During my years at the NIH as a Senior Investigator and later as the Director of the Catheterization Laboratory, I was exposed to a broad range of clinical and research experiences including animal investigation, design, and execution of clinical trials and the early days of coronary angioplasty. We were the third group in the USA to treat coronary...
During the 1990s, I was the research director of an influential interventional cardiology group in Washington DC, and we helped to develop many of the newer angioplasty techniques from the standpoint of clinical practice and clinical research. I was convinced that evidence-based medicine applied in rigorous clinical trials would help to establish o...
The field of structural heart disease is indeed very expansive, incorporating all transcatheter or catheter-based techniques to treat non-vascular structures in the heart. Undoubtedly, we will be focusing on mitral and tricuspid regurgitation in the next many years, which likely will require more of a ‘toolbox’ approach requiring many different dev...
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Martin B. Leon, MD, is a Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York, NY, as well as Chief Innovation Officer and the Director of the Cardiovascular Data Science Center for the Division of Cardiology.
May 16, 2024 · A distinguished pioneer in interventional cardiovascular medicine, Dr. Leon has been the national Principal Investigator for multiple landmark clinical trials, including STRESS, STARS, Gamma-one, SIRIUS, ENDEAVOR, and, most recently, the PARTNER trial. Declaration of interest. Information not available at the time of editing. Latest contributions.
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Jul 27, 2021 · Dr. Leon is currently Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC) in New York. He is also Director of the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy (CIVT), Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories and the Director of the executive board of the New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of ...
Martin B. Leon, MD, is the Mallah Family Professor of Cardiology at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of the Columbia Center for Interventional Care (CICC) at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.
