Paul S. Teirstein, MD, is the Chief of Cardiology and Director of Interventional Cardiology for Scripps Clinic and Director of Scripps Prebys Cardiovascular Institute for Scripps Health. He joined Scripps Clinic in 1987. He is an internationally recognized leader in cardiology and has received awards for both research and clinical excellence.

Dr. Teirstein completed medical school at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York and his internship and residency in internal medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. After completing a fellowship in cardiology at Stanford University, he subsequently spent a year as a fellow in complex angioplasty at the Mid-America Heart Institute in Kansas City, Missouri. Dr. Teirstein also completed a fellowship in stents, atherectomy and lasers at the National Institutes of Health.

As the founder and director of the interventional cardiology fellowship program at Scripps Clinic, Dr. Teirstein is leading the way in training a new generation of cardiovascular surgeons. He is board certified in interventional cardiology and cardiovascular disease.

With a primary focus on complex angioplasty and new technology development, Dr. Teirstein has played an active role in the initial development and clinical investigation of coronary stent procedures, rotablator atherectomy, transluminal extraction atherectomy, coronary angioscopy and the utilization of cardiopulmonary support. Dr. Teirstein pioneered the first effective treatment for restenosis (low-dose radiation therapy) and was one of the early investigators of medicated stents.

The author of numerous publications, Dr. Teirstein is a highly respected clinician who sits on the editorial board of prestigious medical publications including Journal of Invasive Cardiology and Journal of the American College of Cardiology and is the author of Textbook of Interventional Cardiology, 6th Edition. He has lectured throughout the world on state-of-the-art interventional cardiology techniques, performs in excess of 1000 stent procedures per year and maintains an active clinical research unit at Scripps Clinic.

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