Martin B. Leon, MD

Course Co-Director, Pediatric and Adult Interventional Cardiac Symposium

Professor, Internal Medicine

Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY

Martin B. Leon, MD, is a Professor of Medicine and the Associate Director of the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy (CIVT) at Columbia University Medical Center. He is also the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation. Dr. Leon has been a practicing Interventional Cardiologist for almost 30 years and has performed over 10,000 Interventional procedures. He has co-authored over 1,400 publications, has co-edited seven textbooks, and has had an important impact in several areas of interventional cardiovascular therapy, including stents, drug-eluting stents, intravascular ultrasound, atherectomy devices and transcatheter valve therapy.

He was the Founder and is the Director of Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics, the largest dedicated meeting in Interventional Cardiovascular Therapy in the world. Dr. Leon has received five international career achievement awards, has an honorary degree from the University of Athens, and has been a Keynote speaker at innumerable symposiums around the world.

Previously, Dr Leon had been Director of Research and Education at the Washington Cardiology Center at the Washington Hospital Center and Clinical Professor of Medicine at Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, DC. He also served as 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, MD.

Dr. Leon is a medical school graduate of the Yale School of Medicine where he completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine and his fellowship in Cardiology at the Yale-New Haven Hospital.