Dimitrios Karmpaliotis

Dimitrios Karmpaliotis, MD, PhD, FACC, FSCAI is Medical Director of the Cardiovascular Rescue and Recovery Program and the Advanced Coronary Therapeutics and Chronic Total Occlusions Program at Morristown Medical Center. Dr. Karmpaliotis was formerly at the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy at Columbia University Medical Center, where he provided world-class care since 2014. He is a former associate professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical School and formerly served as director of the Chronic Total Occlusions, Complex and High-Risk Angioplasty Program at New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. An interventional cardiologist and board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, Dr. Karmpaliotis is a specialist in advanced cardiac intervention, specifically complex PCI and cardiogenic shock treatment. A native of Greece, Dr. Karmpaliotis graduated from the University of Athens School of Health Sciences. He trained in internal medicine at Brown University School of Medicine, Critical Care Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (Harvard Medical School). He then trained in cardiology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (Harvard Medical School) and interventional cardiology at Emory University. Dr. Karmpaliotis was instrumental in building a world-class interventional cardiology program at Piedmont Heart Center in Atlanta, GA. He has served as principal investigator on more than 50 clinical trials and has more than 200 publications in peer-reviewed journals, with special interest in the development of techniques for treating chronic total occlusions in coronary arteries, left main interventions and advanced hemodynamic support. He also co-directed the complex coronary fellowship program at NYPH/CUMC and has been an associate director of Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutic Conference.