Paolo Carlo C Colombo, MD
Paolo Carlo C Colombo, MD

Paolo Carlo C Colombo, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
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Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, more

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CUIMC/Vivian & Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center

173 Fort Washington Avenue
Floor 4, Suite 617
New York, NY 10032
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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
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Expertise

  • Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)

  • Heart Failure

  • Heart Transplant Management

  • Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD)

  • Mechanical Assist Device

  • Pulmonary Hypertension

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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

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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

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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