Jonathan S. Reiner, MD

Jonathan S. Reiner, MD, is a Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences and the Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories. An interventional cardiologist, he has participated in or served as principal investigator for numerous cardiovascular research studies evaluating new therapies for unstable coronary syndromes and acute myocardial infarction. A graduate of Georgetown University, Reiner performed his chief residency in medicine at Cornell University Medical College in New York and his fellowship in cardiology at the George Washington University Medical Center. In 1993, he was the recipient of the Squibb/Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions Fellowship for research in cardiac imaging and completed a fellowship in interventional cardiology, which remains his focus today. He is the author (with Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney) of Heart: An American Medical Odyssey and a medical analyst for CNN.