David Baran MD, FACC, FSCAI

Dr. David A. Baran, MD, serves as Section Head of Advanced Heart Failure, Transplant, and Mechanical Circulatory Support (MCS) at Cleveland Clinic Weston Hospital.

Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic, Dr. Baran was System Director for Advanced Heart Failure, Transplant, and Mechanical Circulatory Support at Sentara Heart Hospital in Norfolk, Virginia. He also served for 14 years as Director of Heart Failure and Transplant Research at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center.

Dr. Baran earned his undergraduate degree at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and his medical degree at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine in Tampa. He completed an internal medicine residency at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City.

His advanced training includes a clinical cardiology fellowship at New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center and two fellowships at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, one in congestive heart failure and another in transplant cardiology and mechanical assist device.