George Dangas, MD, PhD
- PROFESSOR | Medicine, Cardiology
- PROFESSOR | Surgery
Specialties:
Cardiovascular Disease (Heart Disease), Cardiology (Heart), Interventional CardiologyGeorge D. Dangas, MD, PhD is Professor of Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Director of Cardiovascular Innovation at the Zena and Michael A. Weiner Cardiovascular Institute of the Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York City.
Dr. Dangas is a leading authority in the performance of nonsurgical cardiac and vascular interventions (e.g. stent, angioplasty, atherectomy) using both established and novel techniques and in preventing and dissolving thrombosis in the coronary and peripheral arteries. He is currently serving as the Chair of the American College of Cardiology Interventional Scientific Council and has been a Trustee of the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI). He has been a co-director of the annual conferences Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics and Interventional Fellows’ Courses in the USA and Europe for many years and key faculty and program committee member for multiple international conferences including the ACCi2 Summit, ACCIS, and SCAI. He is also the Director of Academic Affairs at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation.
Dr. Dangas completed medical and postgraduate studies at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. Dr. Dangas completed his internship and residency in internal medicine at Miriam Hospital and Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. He completed his cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology fellowships at Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City. Before joining the Faculty of Mount Sinai, he has been Associate Professor and Program Director of Interventional Cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center, NYC and Associate Clinical Professor at NYU School of Medicine and Lenox Hill Hospital. He has been certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Cardiovascular Disease and Interventional Cardiology, by the American Board of Vascular Medicine in both Endovascular and Vascular Medicine, and has been elected Fellow of seven national and international professional societies (AHA, ACC, ACCP, ESC, SCAI, ACP-ASIM, SVM).
In The News: Dr. George Dangas discusses lowering the risks for cardiovascular disease in the Daily News feature, The Daily Check Up.
Certifications
Interventional Cardiology
Cardiovascular Disease
Clinical Focus
- Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Annual Physical
- Aortic Aneurysm
- Aortic Disease
- Aortic Insufficiency
- Aortic Stenosis
- Arrhythmia Diagnostic
- Atherectomy/Angioplasty Of Noncoronary Vessel
- Atherosclerosis
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Bypass Surgery Consultation - CABG
- Cardiac Catheterization
- Cardiac Tamponade
- Cardiac Tumor
- Cardiology Second Opinion
- Cardiomyopathy
- Cardiovascular Distress
- Carotid Artery Stenosis
- Chest Pain
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Coronary Angiography
- Coronary Artery Disease
- Coronary Stenting
- ECG / EKG
- Echocardiogram
- Endocarditis
- Heart Strengthening / Recovery
- Heart Transplant
- Holter Monitor
- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- Minimally Invasive Bypass Consultation - OPCAB
- Mitral Regurgitation
- Mitral Stenosis
- Percutaneous Balloon Valvuloplasty
- Pericardiocentesis
- Pericarditis
- Peripheral Vascular Disease
- Radiofrequency Ablation
- Renal Artery Stenosis
- Stroke
Education
MD, University of Athens
Residency, Internal Medicine, Miriam Hospital
Fellowship, Cardiology, The Mount Sinai Hospital
Fellowship, Interventional Cardiology, The Mount Sinai Hospital
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Below are financial relationships with industry reported by Dr. Dangas during 2021 and/or 2022. Please note that this information may differ from information posted on corporate sites due to timing or classification differences.
Consulting:
- ALBANY MEDICAL CENTER; CERC
Equity (Stock or stock options valued at greater than 5% ownership of a publicly traded company or equity of any value in a privately held company)
- Elixir Medical Corporation; STEL
Industry-Sponsored Lectures: MSSM faculty occasionally give lectures at events sponsored by industry, but only if the events are free of any marketing purpose.
- ACT1 MGH; Asan University South Korea; Gaffney Events; Indonesia Cardiology; John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI); St. Francis Hospital; voxmedia
Scientific Advisory Board:
- Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (SCAI)
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