The Interventional Cardiology Section provides diagnostic evaluation and therapeutic treatment of patients with coronary artery disease, peripheral vascular disease, and structural and valvular heart disease. We perform more than 4000 procedures annually, including transcatheter therapies utilizing coronary and peripheral stents, acute MI treatments, assessment of hemodynamics and valvular heart disease, and specific therapies for atrial septal defects, patent foramen ovale, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy, aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation. The section has large portfolio of research trials providing novel and innovative device therapies for a variety of cardiac conditions, including renal denervation for hypertension, atrial septostomy for heart failure with preserved ejection fraction, novel transcatheter aortic valve replacement prostheses, and new non-surgical therapies for mitral regurgitation.
Section Leadership
Howard C. Herrmann, MD
John W. Bryfogle Professor of Cardiovascular Diseases
Professor of Surgery
Health System Director for Interventional Cardiology
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Section Faculty and Staff
- Alexander Craig Fanaroff, MD, MHS
Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Paul N. Fiorilli, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania
Program Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship
- Jay Giri, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories, Philadelphia VA Medical Center
Director, Peripheral Intervention at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- Lauren Glassmoyer, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
- Taisei Kobayashi, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
- Daniel M. Kolansky, MD
Professor of Medicine at the Hospital of University of Pennsylvania
Associate Chief for Clinical Affairs, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Director of the Cardiac Care Unit
- Ashwin Nathan, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
- Vikram R. Palanivel, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
- Allison Tsao, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
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