Dr. Edwin Homan

Biography

Dr. Edwin Homan is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Cardiology at Weill Cornell Medical College. He specializes in consultative cardiology, critical care cardiology, and echocardiography. His clinical interests include preventive cardiology, premature atherosclerosis, lipid disorders, obesity-related cardiovascular disease, and healthcare disparities. Dr. Homan completed his fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease at NewYork-Presbyterian/Cornell, where he served as Chief Cardiology Fellow, and undertook additional training in cardiometabolic biology. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia and earned his M.D. from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Prior to medical school, he obtained a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Harvard University and a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of Florida in Gainesville. His research has focused on understanding the relationship between obesity and cardiovascular disease. He has studied the role of the innate immune system in obesity-related liver disease and heart failure, and has received the Glorney-Raisbeck Fellowship Award in Cardiovascular Disease. Dr. Homan is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and a Diplomate of the American Board of Clinical Lipidology. He is fluent in Spanish and French.

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