Martin B. Leon, MD

Martin Leon, MD

Martin B. Leon, MD is the Chairman of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation and the Associate Director of the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy (CIVT) at Columbia University Medical Center. He is also a practicing Interventional Cardiologist at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Leon has co-authored over 1,100 publications, has performed over 7,000 interventional procedures, and has had an important impact in several areas of interventional vascular therapy. He is the Director of Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics, the largest dedicated meeting in interventional vascular therapy in the world.

Dr. Leon has been director of clinical research 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. He was a founder of the Washington Cardiology Center and the Cardiology Research Foundation in Washington, DC.

He completed a fellowship in cardiology at the Yale New Haven Hospital. Dr. Leon completed medical school at the Yale School of Medicine and his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Yale New Haven Hospital.