Shmuel Chen, M.D., Ph.D.

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Dr. Shmuel Chen is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine and the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He specializes in interventional cardiology including the treatment of coronary and structural heart disease.Dr. Chen received his medical degree from The Hebrew University School of Medicine (Jerusalem, Israel) as well as a PhD in Neurobiology from the Hebrew University School of Medicine. He completed his training in internal medicine and cardiology at the Hebrew University, Hadassah Medical Center (Jerusalem, Israel), where he also served as a Staff Cardiologist and a Lecturer in Cardiology. He subsequently moved to New York City and dedicated over 2 years to a prestigious research fellowship at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF). During this time, he worked towards designing and undertaking cutting-edge clinical trials and research in interventional cardiology. He has lead and extensively contributed to a number of projects and studies, exploring all aspects of cardiovascular and structural heart disease. These works have been published in leading medical journals in the field. After this focused research time, Dr. Chen joined The Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital (New York, NY) for a two-year interventional cardiology fellowship program in July 2019. He gained specialty training in coronary interventions and strcutrual heart disease including aortic, mitral, tricuspid, paravalvular leak, patent foramen ovale (PFO), and left atrial appendage procedures. He joined the Weill Cornell Medical Center in September 2021 for another year of advanced structural heart training and served as an Instructor in Medicine.