Dor Lotan, MD
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Overview
Dr. Dor Lotan is an Assistant Professor of Cardiology specializing in Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support, and Transplant Cardiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He provides comprehensive care to patients with heart diseases, particularly those with heart failure who require advanced therapies such as mechanical circulatory support devices, intensive cardiac care, left ventricular assist devices (LVADs), and heart transplantation.
Dr. Lotan is also an expert in pericardial diseases, with extensive experience in treating patients with recurrent pericarditis resistant to conventional therapies. He was appointed Director of the Center for Pericardial Diseases, a multidisciplinary program that brings together experts in pericardial and inflammatory heart diseases, incorporating advanced imaging and diagnostics.
His clinical interests include heart failure, advanced heart failure therapies, cardiomyopathies, myocarditis, inflammatory heart diseases, autoimmune disorders affecting the heart, pericardial diseases, and cardiovascular hemodynamics. Dr. Lotan divides his time between inpatient and outpatient care, as well as performing advanced procedures in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, including invasive hemodynamic studies and endomyocardial biopsies.
Dr. Lotan earned his medical degree with honors from Semmelweis University and completed his Internal Medicine Residency and Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship at Sheba Medical Center in Israel. He then pursued his Advanced Heart Failure Fellowship at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. During his training, Dr. Lotan published numerous scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and contributed three book chapters, including one in the prestigious cardiovascular medicine textbook by the European Society of Cardiology.
He has been invited to present his research at international medical conferences and has participated in European Task Forces and international multicenter prospective studies. Dr. Lotan’s primary research focuses on advanced heart failure therapies, hemodynamics, cardiomyopathies, Myocarditis, and pericardial diseases.
Dr. Lotan is a member of the American College of Cardiology, the Heart Failure Society of America, and the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the Myocarditis Foundation.
Areas of Expertise / Conditions Treated
- Cardiac Sarcoidosis
- Cardio-Rheumatology
- Cardiogenic Shock
- Cardiomyopathy
- Congestive Heart Failure (CHF)
- Heart Failure
- Heart Failure With Preserved Ejection Fraction (HFpEF)
- Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrE
- Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
- Myocarditis
- Pericardial Disease
- Pulmonary Hypertension
Academic Appointments
- Assistant Professor of Medicine at CUMC
Administrative Titles
- Director, Centralized Heart Failure Program
- Pericardal Disease Director
Hospital Affiliations
- NewYork-Presbyterian / Columbia University Irving Medical Center
Languages
- Hebrew
Gender
- Male
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