John D. Bisognano, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Bisognano is a Professor of Medicine and Director of Outpatient Services in the Division of Cardiology and joined the faculty in 2001. He is Director of the Comprehensive Hypertension Center at the University of Rochester, which was recently accredited by the American Society of Hypertension. He is accepting new patients in area of general cardiology, hypertension (including resistant and refractory hypertension) and heart failure. He is involved in numerous clinical trials that may offer new treatments to people with cardiovascular disease. He also attends on the inpatient Cardiac Intensive Care Unit Service where patients with all types of acute cardiovascular disease, including advanced heart failure, are treated. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology.

Professional Background

Dr. Bisognano obtained his B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a M.A. from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton, a Ph.D. from SUNY Binghamton, and his MD degree from SUNY at Syracuse. He was a medical resident at the University of Michigan Medical Center, a Fellow in Hypertension at the University of Michigan, and a Cardiology Fellow at the University of Colorado at Denver. He joined the University of Rochester Medical Center in 2001. He is currently Immediate Past-President of the American Society for Hypertension, and Vice-Chair for the American Heart Association High Blood Pressure Council.

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