Jeffrey W. Olin

Biography

Dr. Olin is a Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Director of Vascular Medicine and the Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory in the Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute and Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health of The Mount Sinai Medical Center.

His clinical expertise involves noncoronary vascular diseases such as fibromuscular dysplasia, peripheral artery disease, carotid artery disease, renal artery disease, venous thromboembolic disease and less common peripheral vascular disease. He is an international leader in vascular ultrasound and has developed new noninvasive techniques to evaluate patients for renal artery stenosis and treat catheter associated pseudoaneurysms.

Dr. Olin is an internationally recognized expert in the area of Vascular Medicine. He has held numerous leadership positions and has been at the forefront of establishing Vascular Medicine as a distinct subspecialty of Cardiovascular Medicine.  He was instrumental in the formation of the American Board of Vascular Medicine, the first ever board examination in this specialty. Dr. Olin is a past president of the Society for Vascular Medicine and recently has been awarded the highest honor from that society, Master of the Society for Vascular Medicine. 

He is a past member of the peripheral vascular disease committee of the American College of Cardiology and past Chair of the Interdisciplinary Working Group on Atherosclerotic Peripheral Vascular Disease of the American Heart Association.  He played an instrumental role in the transformation of this working group to that of a Council of the American Heart Association.  He was a member of the highest-ranking scientific committee of the American Heart Association, the Scientific Advisory and Coordinating Committee. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Vascular Medicine and is one of four physicians selected to direct a task force leading to an examination in the certification entitled Registered Physician in Vascular Ultrasound (RPVI).

Dr. Olin has been involved in clinical research involving fibromuscular dysplasia, peripheral artery disease, renal artery disease and carotid artery disease.  He along with  John Cooke, M.D., Ph.D. at Stanford University conducted the largest NIH study on the Genetics of Peripheral Arterial Disease. He is the Mount Sinai Principle Investigator of the NIH sponsored CORAL trial studying the effect of stents in patients with atherosclerotic renal artery stenosis.  Dr. Olin was the international Principal Investigator and Chair of the Steering Committee for a study of Immune Modulation Therapy for patients with Peripheral Arterial Disease. He is the current U.S. Principal Investigator for the WALK trial investigating the role of gene therapy to grow new blood vessels in patients with peripheral arterial disease and has been active in gene therapy trials to prevent amputation in those patients with circulatory problems of the legs.

Dr. Olin has authored more than 180 scientific papers in the peer review literature, 3 books and more than 60 book chapters. He has served on many writing committees of the American College of Cardiology and American Heart Association. He currently is Chairing the writing committee on Performance Measures in Peripheral Arterial Disease, and the Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association on fibromuscular dysplasia.  He has published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Circulation, Journal of the American Medical Association, Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Journal of Vascular Surgery and Vascular Medicine just to name a few. He is an Associate Editor of the journal Vascular Medicine and Editor of the textbook Peripheral Vascular Diseases.

After receiving his medical degree from the University of Health Sciences in Kansas City, Missouri, he completed his residency and fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. In 2003 he came to the Mount Sinai School of Medicine as Director of Vascular Medicine and Co-director of the Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory where he has developed a comprehensive clinical, educational and research program in Vascular Medicine.


In The News: Dr. Jeffrey Olin discusses fibromuscular dysplasia in the The Daily News feature The Daily Check-Up.