Stephen
Scheidt, M.D.
Medical Co-Director
Dr. Stephen Scheidt was Professor of Clinical Medicine and Director of the Cardiology Training Program at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City. An internationally known cardiologist, he has served as President of the New York Cardiological Society, as the New York Governor of the American College of Cardiology, and as Vice-President of the American Heart Association. He was Principal Investigator of the Myocardial Infarction Research Unit at New York, has had extensive experience in peer review, and has held several administrative posts at Cornell, including Associate Dean for Student Affairs and Assistant Dean for Continuing Medical Education. He was a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.
Dr. Scheidt earned a B.A. from Princeton University, was a Fulbright Fellow in Biochemistry at the University of Würzburg, Germany, and received his M.D. degree from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was an intern at Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, N.Y., completed his residency at First (Columbia) Medical Division, Bellevue Hospital, New York, and did cardiology fellowship training at New York-Cornell Medical Center, where he has been a full-time faculty member for more than 30 years.
He has authored more than 170 articles in Cardiology, a book on basic electrocardiography with Dr. Frank Netter, and co-edited “Heart and Mind”, the first compilation of work in the new field of cardiac psychology. He was senior editor of Cardiovascular Reviews and Reports and the American Journal of Geriatric Cardiology. He servesd on the Board of Directors of the New York State Peer Review Organization and Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield, the largest health insurance company in New York State.
Dr. Scheidt was currently responsible for the training
of young cardiologists at New York-Cornell, and was also co-director
of the Salzburg-Cornell seminars, a program that brings the latest advances
in U.S. and western medical science to physicians in Central and Eastern
Europe and the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union.
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director, Cardiology Training Program
New York-Cornell Medical Center
USA
Memorial Site of Dr. Stephen Scheidt.