Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum
Dr. Suzanne Steinbaum is the Director of Women and Heart Disease at the Heart and Vascular Institute, Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City. She has done fellowship training in both Preventive Cardiology and Cardiology. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, with a subspecialty in prevention and women and heart disease. She was the Director of the Center for Cardiac and Pulmonary Health, for cardiac rehabilitation and lifestyle management at Beth Israel Medical Center until recently when she moved to Lenox Hill Hospital as Director of Women and Heart Disease of the Heart and Vascular Institute.
Dr. Steinbaum has devoted her career to the treatment of heart disease through early detection, education, and prevention. She was one of the founders of the Women's Cardiac Care Network, a city wide program under the Continuum Hospital network, including 4 hospitals citywide in metropolitan Manhattan.
She has lectured nationally on topics of coronary artery disease, Women and Heart Disease, natural and alternative ways of treating heart disease and the prevention of heart disease. She is often cited in magazines and newspapers and has done network news health segments for ABC, NBC and CBS as a leading consultant in the field of women and heart disease, preventive cardiology and cardiac rehabilitation. She has been featured on the Discovery Health Channel's "Health Cops", a show dedicated to risk factor modification in young people at risk for developing heart disease. She has written on topics of cardiac prevention and nutrition has been quoted in many publications.
She has lent her time in lecturing to multiple organizations around New York, including the United Federation of Teachers, the Hispanic Housing Society and was recently seen as a physician at the finish line of the More Marathon, for women over 40 years old. She is a published author in Progresses in Cardiovascular Disease, on "The Metabolic Syndrome: an emerging health epidemic in women." She also helped to educate people of the prevention of heart disease through lifestyle modification by becoming the spokesperson for Minute Maid orange juice, to help educate people on the prevention of heart disease through lifestyle modification.
She is on the consulting board of Bottom Line/Women's Health, an online health journal. Most recently, her writing can be seen in the magazine, The Boulevard Long Island.
Dr. Steinbaum has joined the non-for-profit organization, Events of the Heart, with the continued goal of the education and empowerment of women in dealing with their hearts. Dr. Steinbaum lends a unique perspective by guiding women in the pursuit of health by learning how to understand their issues and more effectively communicate their concerns to their physicians.
Dr. Steinbaum is an active member of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association.
