Paolo C. Colombo

Biography

"Paolo C. Colombo is a cardiologist who specialized in treating patients with heart failure, cardiac assist device and heart transplant. Dr. Colombo is board certified in Cardiovascular Disease and in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology. Dr. Colombo received his medical degree, magna cum laude from the University of Milan in Italy. He completed his internal medicine residency and fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center, the university hospital for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He then specialized in heart failure and transplant at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in New York. Dr. Colombo has been on ColumbiaDoctors faculty since 2002. He is the Sudhir Choudhrie Associate Professor of Cardiology and serves as the Director of the Center for Advanced Cardiac: Heart Failure, Heart Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support. An internationally renowned investigator, Dr. Colombo has been awarded research grants from the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association as well as other research foundations. Dr. Colombo has published more than 90 manuscripts and presented his research all over the world. Dr. Colombo sees patients at Columbia University Medical Center in Washington Heights."

Research Interest

"Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD) Heart Transplant Management Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) Mechanical Assist Device Heart Failure"