Dr. Paul Christian Schulze

Degrees
MD, Faculty of Medicine, University of Leipzig, Germany
PhD, Neuropathology, University of Leipzig, Germany
Current position
Director of Research, Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, USA

Appointments
Director of Research, Center of Advanced Cardiac Care, Columbia University, New York
Editorial Board member, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Cardiology
Fellow, Cardiovascular Division, Harvard Medical School, Boston
Recognition under “New York Best Cardiologists”, New York Magazine, 2011
Recognition in “Top Doctors: New York Metro Area”, 15th Edition

Biography
Dr. Schulze is the Florence Irving Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology at Columbia University Medical Center. He is Director of Research of the Center of Advanced Cardiac Care at Columbia University Medical Center, one of the largest heart failure, mechanical assist device and cardiac transplant centers in the US. Dr. Schulze is board-certified in Cardiology and Internal Medicine with subspecialty certification in Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation, Nuclear Cardiology and Echocardiography. Dr. Schulze received MD and PhD degrees from the University of Leipzig, Faculty of Medicine. He completed residency in Internal Medicine at Boston University and a Clinical Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship at Columbia University Medical Center. Previously, Dr. Schulze trained as a postdoctoral fellow in Cardiovascular Research at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and served as an Instructor in Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Schulze’s research interest focuses on cardiac and systemic metabolism in advanced heart failure, the role of ventricular assist devices for bridging patients to cardiac transplantation and outcome parameters of patients undergoing cardiac transplantation. Dr. Schulze is supported by grants from the National Institute of Health and Columbia University.