Paolo Carlo C Colombo, MD
Locations and Appointments
New Patients
CUIMC/Vivian & Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center
Insurances Accepted
Please contact the doctor's office to verify that your insurance is accepted.
- AETNA
- Affinity Health Plan
- AgeWell
- Amida Care
- CIGNA
- Elderplan
- Emblem/GHI
- Emblem/Hip
- Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthplus
- Fidelis Care
- Healthfirst
- Local 1199
- Magnacare (National)
- Medicare
- Multiplan
- MVP Health Care
- Quality Health Management
- RiverSpring
- UnitedHealthcare
- VNSNY CHOICE
- WellCare
- World Trade Center Health Plan
About Paolo Carlo C Colombo, MD
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 Professor of Cardiology and serves as the Medical Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support program.
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 260 manuscripts and presented his research all over the world.
Dr. Colombo sees patients at Columbia University Medical Center in Washington Heights.
Board Certifications
- Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
- Cardiovascular Disease
Expertise
Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
Heart Failure
Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)
Heart Transplant Management
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD)
Mechanical Assist Device
Pulmonary Hypertension
Education
Fellowship: Montefiore Medical Center
Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
Medical School: University of Milan Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (Italy)
Residency: Montefiore Medical Center
Languages
- French
- Italian
- Spanish
Titles & Positions
Assistant Attending Physician, Center for Advanced Cardiac Care
Assistant Attending Physician, Coronary Care Unit
Director, Center for Advanced Cardiac Care
Medical Director Mechanical of the Circulatory Support Program
Sudhir Choudhrie Associate Professor of Cardiology (in Medicine) at the Columbia University Medical Center
Hospital Affiliations
NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Education
- Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
- Medical School: University of Milan Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (Italy)
- Fellowship: Montefiore Medical Center
- Residency: Montefiore Medical Center
Titles & Positions
- Assistant Attending Physician, Center for Advanced Cardiac Care
- Assistant Attending Physician, Coronary Care Unit
- Director, Center for Advanced Cardiac Care
- Medical Director Mechanical of the Circulatory Support Program
- Sudhir Choudhrie Associate Professor of Cardiology (in Medicine) at the Columbia University Medical Center
Board Certifications
- Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
- Cardiovascular Disease
Languages Spoken
- French
- Italian
- Spanish