Biography

Dr. Stone is Professor of Medicine at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Director of Cardiovascular Research and Education at the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. Dr. Stone has served as the national or international principal investigator for more than 50 national and international multicenter randomized trials; has authored more than 1,000 book chapters, manuscripts and abstracts published in peer-reviewed literature, and has delivered thousands of invited lectures around the world. Dr. Stone's areas of expertise include interventional therapies of acute coronary syndromes and myocardial infarction; drug-eluting stents; adjunct pharmacology; percutaneous heart valves; new device angioplasty including distal embolic protection, thrombectomy, vascular brachy therapy and stent grafts; intravascular ultrasound imaging; saphenous vein graft therapies; chronic total occlusions; vulnerable plaque; contrast nephropathy; clinical trial design; and regulatory issues.

Reference

Design and rationale for a randomised comparison of everolimus-eluting stents and coronary artery bypass graft surgery in selected patients with left main coronary artery disease: the EXCEL trial

Quality of Life after Everolimus-Eluting Stents or Bypass Surgery for Treatment of Left Main Disease

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