Jonathan Chen, MDDr. Jonathan M. Chen is an Assistant Professor of Cardiothoracic Surgery in the Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the New York-Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center and is jointly appointed at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. He is the Director of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery at the Weill Cornell Campus.
Dr. Chen completed his undergraduate studies at Yale University in 1990, where he obtained a degree in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. He pursued his medical education at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, and completed his residency in both General Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery at the Columbia-Presbyterian campus of the New York Presbyterian Hospital. After completion of a fellowship in heart transplantation and
ventricular assist devices, Dr. Chen pursued an additional fellowship in pediatric cardiac surgery at the Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian.
He is currently a co-investigator on several national ventricular assist device (VAD) trials, as well as a co-investigator on a multi-disciplinary National Heart-Lung Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Specialized Centers of Clinically Oriented Research (SCCOR) grant evaluating long-term mechanical ventricular assistance. His particular interest is in the development and design of a
ventricular assist device for infants and small children.
Dr. Chen is the author of over 60 peer-review journal articles and more than a dozen book chapters. He is an editor of the textbook Cardiac Transplantation: The Columbia University Medical Center/New York-Presbyterian Hospital Manual published by the Humana Press in
2004. He is a member of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, The American Society of Transplant Surgeons, The International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation, and The World Society of Congenital and Pediatric Heart Surgery.
Dr. Chen has participated in humanitarian efforts to extend pediatric cardiac surgery to developing nations internationally in Guatemala, China, Cambodia and Africa. He has led trips for SOH to the Phnom Penh Heart Center, and most recently to the Fann Cardiovascular Center in Dakar.