Paolo C Colombo, MD

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
Specialties
Cardiovascular Disease, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, morespecialties

Locations and Appointments


CUIMC/Vivian & Seymour Milstein Family Heart Center

173 Fort Washington Avenue
Floor 4, Suite 617
New York, NY 10032
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  • Aetna Signature Administrators
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • HMO
  • PPO
  • POS
  • EPO
  • NY Signature
  • Student Health
  • Essential Plan
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Special Needs
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • PPO
  • HMO
  • Great West (National)
  • EPO
  • POS
  • PPO
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • Select Care (Exchange)
  • Vytra
  • EPO
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • HMO
  • PPO
  • POS
  • ConnectiCare
  • Essential Plan
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Essential Plan
  • PPO
  • Local 32BJ
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • HMO
  • EPO
  • Essential Plan
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Leaf (Exchange)
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • Local 1199
  • MagnaCare
  • Traditional Medicare
  • Railroad
  • Multiplan
  • HMO
  • Essential Plan
  • Child/Family Health Plus
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Special Needs
  • HMO
  • POS
  • PPO
  • Columbia University Employee Plan
  • Empire Plan
  • Compass (Exchange)
  • Oxford Liberty
  • Oxford Freedom
  • Oxford HMO
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • Medicaid (Community Plan)
  • SelectHealth
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • Special Needs
  • Medicaid Managed Care
  • Medicare Managed Care
  • World Trade Center Health Plan

About Paolo C Colombo, MD


Paolo C. Colombo is a cardiologist who specialized in treating patients with heart failure, cardiac assist device and heart transplant. Dr. Colombo is board certified in Cardiovascular Disease and in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology.

Dr. Colombo received his medical degree, magna cum laude from the University of Milan in Italy. He completed his internal medicine residency and fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center, the university hospital for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He then specialized in heart failure and transplant at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center in New York.

Dr. Colombo has been on ColumbiaDoctors faculty since 2002. He is the Sudhir Choudhrie Professor of Cardiology and serves as the Medical Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support program.

An internationally renowned investigator, Dr. Colombo has been awarded research grants from the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association as well as other research foundations. Dr. Colombo has published more than 260 manuscripts and presented his research all over the world.

Dr. Colombo sees patients at Columbia University Medical Center in Washington Heights.

Board Certifications

  • Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
  • Cardiovascular Disease

Languages Spoken

  • French
  • Italian
  • Spanish

Specialties & Expertise

  • Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
  • Heart Failure
  • Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)
  • Heart Transplant Management
  • Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
  • Left Ventricular Assist Devices (LVAD)
  • Mechanical Assist Device
  • Pulmonary Hypertension

EDUCATION

  • Fellowship: NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center
  • Medical School: University of Milan Faculty of Medicine and Surgery (Italy)
  • Fellowship: Montefiore Medical Center
  • Residency: Montefiore Medical Center

LEADERSHIP, TITLES & POSITIONS

  • Sudhir Choudhrie Associate Professor of Cardiology (in Medicine) at the Columbia University Medical Center
  • Assistant Attending Physician, Center for Advanced Cardiac Care
  • Assistant Attending Physician, Coronary Care Unit
  • Medical Director Mechanical of the Circulatory Support Program
  • Director, Center for Advanced Cardiac Care

HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS

  • NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center

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