Alexandre A. Abizaid MD, PhD

Alexandre Abizaid, MD, PhD, is the Director of Interventional Cardiology at Instituto do Coracao in São Paulo, Brazil, and a Visiting Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. He is also a key faculty member of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) who spends part of his time in São Paulo leading an active research program, and in New York at CRF and Columbia. Dr. Abizaid's areas of interest are drug-eluting stents and intravascular ultrasound. He is also involved in several structural heart disease protocols, including mitral and tricuspid. He has conducted several first-in-man studies testing multiple DES systems and percutaneous valve systems and has participated very actively in numerous randomized trials and post-marketing registries. He attended a research fellowship program at the Washington Hospital Center, in Washington, DC, from 1996 to 1998.