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James Wilentz, MD
James Wilentz, MD

    Dr. James Wilentz is assistant professor of medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and co-director of Interventional Cardiovascular Research at Lenox Hill Heart and Vascular Institute of New York.

    He graduated Alpha Omega Alpha from the NYU School of Medicine after receiving his BA in english from Columbia University. After his medicine residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital (then Peter Bent Brigham) and cardiology fellowship at Boston City, he did his interventional fellowship with Dr. Andreas Gruentzig, and in 1986 became associate chief of the cath lab at Lenox Hill. From 1993 through 2006, he directed the Interventional Cardiology Labs at New York's Continuum Health Partners Beth Israel and St. Luke's - Roosevelt Hospitals, before returning to Lenox Hill in February of that year.

    He is a fellow of the American Heart Association's Council on Clinical Cardiology, the American College of Cardiology and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention. His research in the animal lab produced original understanding of the interaction of blood platelets and the vessel wall during angioplasty. He is an author of book chapters and original articles on carotid and subclavian stenting, and has been an investigator in clinical trials from the first TIMI trial of tPA to recent device development trials in carotid stenting with protection, coronary stenting, closure for PFO, hybrid revascularization, cutting balloons and peripheral vascular atherectomy and stenting.

    Dr. Wilentz volunteered with Partners in Health to work at the General Hospital in Port-au-Prince Haiti in February, several weeks after the earthquake. His experience and meetings with health care leaders and cardiologists there formed the basis of his recent Op-Ed piece in the New York Times, In Haiti, a Lesson for U.S. Health Care.

     

    Schedule28 Mar 2024