Cardiovascular Medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital features top-trained clinicians who use of state of the art technology to deliver personalized care to patients with a broad range of cardiovascular conditions. The program spans all aspects of cardiology from Preventive Cardiology through complex care, including procedures in the Cardiac Catheterization Lab and Electrophysiology Lab, and collaborates closely with Cardiac and Vascular Surgery. The program is enhanced by clinical research directed toward improvement in patient care, and by a strong teaching program.
Section Leadership

Douglas S. Jacoby, MD
Chief, Section of Cardiovascular Diseases, Pennsylvania Hospital
Medical Director, Penn Medicine Center for Preventive Cardiology and Lipid Management
Director, Clinical Informatics, Cardiovascular Medicine
The Louis R. Dinon, M.D Teaching Chair of Clinical Cardiology
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Section Faculty and Staff
- Ronald Carabelli, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
- Howard Haber, MD
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Pennsylvania Hospital
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
- Jeffrey Luebbert, MD
Assistant Director, Electrophysiology Lab, Pennsylvania Hospital
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
- J. Shawn Miles, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
- William Pentz, MD
Director, Echocardiography Lab, Pennsylvania Hospital
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
- David Poll, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
- Sharon Rubin, MD
Director, Heart Failure, Pennsylvania Hospital
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
- Monika Sanghavi, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
- Kevin Steinberg, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Colin A. Craft, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Benjamin Khazan, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Mary C. Shields, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
- Robert Van Ness Same, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine