Paul David Kligfield, MD
Locations and Appointments
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About Paul David Kligfield, MD
Paul Kligfield, MD, has been at NewYork-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center, as Director of the Cardiac Graphics Laboratory since 1977 and as Medical Director of the Cardiac Health Center since 1995. He is a 1970 graduate of Harvard Medical School and was an intern and resident in Medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He spent a year as a clinical research fellow in Cardiology at St. George's Hospital in London before completing his fellowship at Cornell. Dr. Kligfield served in the US Navy as a cardiologist at the Naval Submarine Medical Center in Groton before joining the full-time faculty at Cornell in 1977, where he is now Professor of Medicine. In addition to private patient care activities and teaching, his clinical investigation is focused on new algorithms in exercise testing and standard electrocardiography. Dr. Kligfield is President-elect of the New York Cardiological Society, President of the New York Chapter of the American College of Cardiology and Governor of the American College of Cardiology from metropolitan New York, Vice-President of the International Society for Computerized Electrocardiology, and a member and past President of the American Osler Society. He has published numerous research papers and editorials, and he serves on the editorial boards of a number of subspecialty journals.A summary of Dr. Kligfield's Education, Training and/or Faculty Appointments is listed as following:1970 M.D. - Harvard Medical School 1971 Internship, Internal Medicine - Beth Isreal Hospital, Boston1972 Residency , Internal Medicine - Beth Isreal Hospital, Boston1973 Research Fellow, Cardiology - St. George's Hospital - London, England1975 Fellow, Cardiology - Cornell University Medical College
Board Certifications
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Internal Medicine
Expertise
Cardiac Graphics
Cardiology
Coronary Artery Disease
Exercise Physiology
Valvular Heart Disease
Education
Internship: Beth Israel Hospital
Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Residency: Beth Israel Hospital
Titles & Positions
Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College
Hospital Affiliations
NewYork-Presbyterian / Weill Cornell Medical Center
Education
- Residency: Beth Israel Hospital
- Internship: Beth Israel Hospital
- Medical School: Harvard Medical School
Titles & Positions
- Professor of Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College
Board Certifications
- Cardiovascular Disease
- Internal Medicine