Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Faculty & Staff
NYU Langone’s Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease boasts faculty who are internationally recognized experts in clinical care and cardiovascular research.
Faculty
Jeffrey S. Berger, MD
Director, Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
Director, Cardiovascular Thrombosis Program
Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine and Surgery
Expertise: complex thrombotic disorders of the cardiovascular system and vascular medicine
Edward A. Fisher, MD, PhD, MPH
Inaugural Director, Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
Director, Translational Research, Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
The Leon H. Charney Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine
Professor, Departments of Cell Biology, Microbiology, and Pediatrics
Expertise: lipid disorders, coronary artery disease, low-density lipoprotein metabolism, and imaging of arteries
Howard Weintraub, MD
Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine
Clinical Director, Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
Associate Director, Preventive Cardiology Fellowship Program
Expertise: lipid disorders, coronary artery disease, insulin resistance, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and hypertension
Arthur Z. Schwartzbard, MD
Director, Preventive Cardiology Fellowship
Clinical Lipid Research Director, Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine
Expertise: insulin resistance, diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and echocardiography
William Blau, MD
Clinical Instructor, Department of Medicine
Expertise: aortic valve stenosis, mitral valve stenosis, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and atherosclerosis
Michael S. Garshick, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Expertise: cardiovascular disease prevention, inflammation, cardiovascular manifestations of psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis, and endothelial dysfunction
Chiara Giannarelli, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Departments of Cardiology and Pathology
Expertise: atherosclerosis, immune cells, inflammation in atherosclerosis, vascular disease, and precision medicine
Ira J. Goldberg, MD
Director, Holman Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism
The Clarissa and Edgar Bronfman Jr. Professor of Endocrinology, Department of Medicine
Expertise: lipid disorders and type 2 diabetes
Dennis A. Goodman, MD
Director, Integrative Medicine, the Leon H. Charney Division of Cardiology
Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine
Expertise: lifestyle changes to reduce cardiovascular risk
Carine Hamo, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Expertise: heart failure prevention, cardiometabolic disease, congestive heart failure, dilated cardiomyopathy, and metabolic syndrome
Sean P. Heffron, MD
Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Expertise: general and preventive cardiology, obesity, nutrition, and exercise physiology
Jonathan Newman, MD, MPH
The Eugene Braunwald, MD, Assistant Professor of Cardiology, Department of Medicine
Expertise: clinical and preventive cardiology; echocardiography; and inflammatory, oncologic, and environmental risk factors for cardiovascular disease
James A. Underberg, MD
Director, Bellevue Hospital Lipid Clinic
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Expertise: preventive cardiovascular medicine, lipidology, and hypertension
Advanced Practice Provider
Swathi Bolneni, PA-C
Fellow
Beth Sherry, MD
Preventive Cardiology Fellow
Clinical Nutritionist
Heather Hodson, RD, CDN
Administrative Staff
Julia Levine, MPA
Program Manager
Ania Coats, MA
Program Coordinator
