Columbia University Medical Centre, New York (United States of America)
Martin B. Leon, MD, is the Mallah Family Professor of Cardiology at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of the Columbia Center for Interventional Care (CICC) at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Previously, Dr. Leon was also the Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center and currently he also serves on the Executive Board of the New York-Presbyterian/Columbia Heart Valve Center. Dr. Leon was the Founder of Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT) symposium and Chairman Emeritus of the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF) in New York City and is currently CRF’s Co-Director, Medical Research and Education Division. TCT is the largest dedicated interventional cardiology meeting in the world and CRF is the largest independent not-for-profit cardiovascular research and education center in the world.