Allan L. Klein MD, FRCP(C), FACC, FAHA

Allan Klein, MD, is the Director of Cardiovascular Imaging Research, Director of the Center for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pericardial Diseases, and a staff cardiologist in the Section of Cardiovascular Imaging, at the Robert and Suzanne Tomsich Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, at the Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute.  He is also the Course Director for Diastology and Contrast Echo & New Technologies Courses - currently his 15th annual course.  He is board-certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine.

Dr. Klein reads well over 2000 echocardiograms per year and performs TEE and intraoperative echocardiograms for the interventional structural program. The pericardial center evaluates over 2100 patients per year of which Dr. Klein sees the majority of patients. He also heads the pericardiocentesis simulation program which trains the cardiology fellows and performs pericardiocentesis.

Dr. Klein received his medical degree from McGill University in Montreal, Quebec after completing an undergraduate degree in microbiology and immunology, graduating with honors.  While in medical school, he received several scholarships and graduated in the top 10 percent of his class.  Dr. Klein completed his clinical training at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto and the Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal.  He completed a Cardiology Residency from the University of Ottawa Heart Institute and a Research Fellowship from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn.  He was appointed to Cleveland Clinic in 1989.