D. Lynn Morris, MD is Chairman of Cardiology and Director of the Einstein Institute for Heart and Vascular Health. Dr. Morris is board certified in interventional cardiology, cardiovascular disease and internal medicine. He is a graduate of the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston and completed his internal medicine residency training at the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia. Dr. Morris served as Chief Medical Resident at the University of California, San Francisco, where he completed his fellowship in cardiology. He also completed a research fellowship at the Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco.
Prior to joining Einstein, Dr. Morris has held other leadership positions including Chief of Cardiology at Lehigh Valley Hospital in Allentown, Pennsylvania and Chief of Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories and Interventional Cardiology at Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania. He is a Clinical Professor of Medicine at Jefferson Medical College, has been clinical investigator in more than 25 drug and device trials and reviewer of several cardiology journals and in many scientific, peer review journals.
Dr. Morris has presented research findings and papers at professional society meetings and published in many scientific, peer-reviewed journals including The Journal of the American College of Cardiology, The Annals of Internal Medicine and The American Heart Journal. He is a member of numerous professional associations and is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the Council on Clinical Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the American College of Chest Physicians and the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions.