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Antonio Colombo

Full Professor n.t.

Cardiology
Full Professor n.t. of Cardiology, Humanitas University, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University, New York

Education

  • Primary-Secondary School Gallarate, Italy
  • University of Milan School of Medicine Milan, Italy (1968-75)
  • University of Parma Postgraduate School in Cardiovascular Medicine. Parma, Italy, (1975-78)
  • Residency in Cardiology Ospedale Maggiore Niguarda, De Gasperis   Center (Director Prof. F. Rovelli), Milan, Italy (1975-78)
  • Internship in Internal Medicine (1978-79) at Cabrini Medical Center, New York, Medical College, N.Y.
  • Residency in Internal Medicine (1979-80) at Cabrini Medical Center, New York, Medical College, N.Y.
  • Chief Residency in Internal Medicine (1980-82) at Cabrini Medical Center, New York, Medical College, N.Y.
  • Fellow in Cardiology Veterans Administration Medical Center, Long Beach, University of California Irvine CA. (1982-84)
  • Fellow in Invasive Cardiology Monseigneur Toomey Cardiovascular Laboratory and Research Department (Director Dr. G. Gensini). St. Joseph Hospital, State University of New York, Syracuse, N.Y. (1984-85)

Academic background

  • Instructor in Medicine, New York Medical College (1981-82)
  • Assistant Professor of Medicine University of California, Irvine (1982-1988)
  • Visiting Professor Cleveland Clinic Foundation (1995)
  • Professor of Clinical Medicine New York University, New York (1996 – Sept. 2004)
  • Visiting Professor, University of Belgrade, School of Medicine, Belgrade, Yu (2003)
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Hospital, New York (Sept. 2004 – present)
  • Professor of Cardiology, Università Vita-Salute, San Raffaele Hospital, Milano, Italy (October 2015-2018)

Affiliations

  • Director Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Columbus Hospital Milan, Italy (1986-present)
  • Attending Cardiologist, Stamford Medical Hospital, Stamford, CT (Nov. 2013-present)
  • Attending Cardiologist, Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, New York, NY (2015-present)

Academic honors, awards and prices

  • Summa Cum Laude at M.D. Graduation
  • Best Teaching Resident Cabrini Medical Center, N.Y., N.Y. (1981)
  • Best Clinical Researcher for 1994, Thoraxcenter Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • X TCT Career Award, Washington D.C, October 7-11, 1998.
  • Elite Reviewer 2005 of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Ethica Winner 2010, EuroPCR, Paris, May 26-29, 2010
  • Andreas Gruentzig Lecture on Interventional Cradiology, European Society of Cardiology, August 29, 2010
  • Elite Reviewer 2012 of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology
  • Legends of CV Medicine, American College of Cardiology, Chicago, March 2012
  • Master of the Masters 2013, TCTAP Award 2013, Seoul, Korea, April 23-26, 2013
  • Chien Foundation Award for Outstanding Lectureship & Lifetime Achievement in PCI, CIT 2014 in partenership with TCT, Shanghai, China, March 20-23, 2014
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