Shahriar Yazdanfar, MD
Shahriar Yazdanfar, MD, is Director of the Section of Invasive, Diagnostic, and Interventional Cardiology at Albert Einstein
Medical Center. He is board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases.
In addition to participating as a faculty member in a number of symposiums on various timely issues in cardiology, Dr. Yazdanfar
has authored numerous articles and abstracts on various topics in cardiovascular diseases and interventional procedures, particularly
on directional coronary atherectomy and various aspects of balloon angioplasty in major cardiology journals.
He was the Co-investigator in the National TIMI III trial and Gusto I and II studies.
He received his medical degree in 1965 from Tehran University Medical School in Tehran, Iran. He underwent fellowship training
in clinical cardiology at Temple University Hospital, followed by one year of basic research fellowship at Temple Health Science
Center in Philadelphia, PA. He has been a member of the medical staff at Albert Einstein Medical Center since 1973. His professional
associations include fellowships in the American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association Council on Clinical Cardiology
and American College of Physicians, as well as memberships in the AMA, PMS, PCMS and Philadelphia Academy of Cardiology.
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