Joshua R De Leon, MD
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Director, Coronoary Care Unit
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Tel: 516-663-4482
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| jdeleon@winthrop.org |
Joshua De Leon, MD, Director of the Coronary Care Unit and the Cardiovascular Fellowship Training Program at Winthrop-University Hospital, is an experienced invasive/non-invasive cardiologist. Prior to joining Winthrop in 1999, he was Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Coronary Care Unit at Elmhurst Hospital Center. Dr. De Leon is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and is a Diplomat in Cardiovascular Disease. He is a Testamur of the NASPExAM, and is also certified by the Board of Nuclear Cardiology. His postgraduate clinical training included fellowships in clinical and molecular cardiology at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, where he served as Chief Fellow in clinical cardiology. He was a research fellow in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, where he also completed a residency in internal medicine. He earned his medical degree with honors and 'Distinction in Research' from the SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn. Dr. De Leon is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the SUNY Stony Brook School of Medicine. A member of the American College of Cardiology and the American College of Physicians, Dr. De Leon is also on the editorial board of the Journal of Invasive Cardiology, Cardiovascular Reviews and Reports, Heart Failure, and the American Journal of Geriatric Cardiology. He is active in cardiovascular research, has presented papers at professional meetings and coauthored numerous scientific articles. Recently, he received the 21st Century Achievement Award in Cardiovascular Medicine from the International Biographical Centre.
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