Dr. Jonathan Bella

Dr. Jonathan N. Bella is Chief of Cardiology at the Bronx-Lebanon Hospital Center and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City. He received his medical degree from the University of the East and his internal medicine residency from Montefiore Medical Center-Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. He completed his cardiology fellowship training at The New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City. He is a fellow at the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, and the American Society of Echocardiography. Professor Bella's research interests include cardiovascular disease epidemiology, hypertensive heart disease, cardiovascular imaging, and genetic epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases. Professor Bella is well published in literature and is involved in several major studies, including the Hypertension Genetic Epidemiology Network (HyperGEN) Study, the Losartan Intervention For Endpoint Reduction in Hypertension (LIFE) Study, the Population Architecture Using Genomics and Epidemiology (PAGE) Study, and the Strong Heart Study, a population-based study of the 13 American Indian tribes in the United States. He serves as an associate editor and editorial board member in several journals.