Dr leonard girardi biography of william

Dr. Leonard N. Girardi is the O. Wayne Isom Professor and Chairman of The Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine. He is also the Cardiothoracic Surgeon-in-Chief and an Attending Cardiothoracic Surgeon at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center with surgical privileges at the Columbia University, NY Presbyterian Queens and NY Presbyterian Brooklyn campuses.

He also has surgical privileges at Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and The Hospital for Special Surgery.

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“He said, 'There's nothing you can do that I can't get through — I've been through Normandy,' ” recalled the surgeon, Dr. Leonard Girardi.

Girardi completed his undergraduate studies at Harvard University in 1985, obtaining a degree in biochemistry. He then pursued his medical education at Cornell University Medical College, graduating in 1989. He matriculated into a general surgery residency at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center and completed his cardiothoracic surgery residency there in 1996.

He then pursued an advanced cardiovascular and aortic surgery fellowship at The Baylor College of Medicine