Gregg W. Stone, MD is Director of Academic Affairs for the Mount Sinai Health System, Professor of Medicine and Professor of Population Health Sciences and Policy at The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York. Dr. Stone has served as the national or international principal investigator for approximately 100 national and international multicenter randomized trials (many of which have led to new device approval or indications in the US), has authored more than 2,000 manuscripts and abstracts published in the peer-reviewed literature as well as numerous book chapters, and has delivered thousands of invited lectures around the world. Dr. Stone's areas of expertise include interventional therapies of acute coronary syndromes and myocardial infarction; drug-eluting stents and bioresorbable scaffolds; left main and complex coronary artery disease intervention; antiplatelet and antithrombotic pharmacotherapies; transcatheter mitral valve repair and replacement; intravascular imaging (IVUS, OCT and NIRS); vulnerable plaque diagnosis and treatment; new device angioplasty including atherectomy, distal embolic protection, thrombectomy, covered stents, chronic total occlusion devices, and brachytherapy; saphenous vein graft therapies; left atrial appendage closure; contrast nephropathy; clinical trial design; and regulatory issues.

Dr. Stone is a Director of Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics (TCT), the world's largest symposium devoted to interventional cardiology and vascular medicine, founded the annual National Interventional Cardiology Fellow's Course, and co-directs multiple other courses, including Optimizing Complex PCI Outcomes, The Chronic Total Occlusion Summit, The Left Main Summit, Bioresorbable Scaffolds: A Breakthrough PCI Technology, LAA Occlusion: A Technique Oriented Course, and Transcatheter Valve Therapies (TVT). Dr. Stone is also a director or co-director of numerous annual international courses including CIT (China Interventional Therapeutics in Beijing, China), TCTAP (TCT Asia Pacific in Seoul, S. Korea), JIM (Joint Interventional Course in Italy), and TCT Russia (in Moscow).

Dr. Stone was previously Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center, Director of Cardiovascular Research and Education at the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy at NewYork-Presbyterian. Earlier, he held similar positions at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York and the Washington Hospital Center in Washington, DC. Prior to that, he was the Director of Interventional Cardiology at the Cardiovascular Institute at El Camino Hospital and Stanford University Medical Center in California.

Dr. Stone completed medical school at Johns Hopkins University Medical Center, in Baltimore, MD, and his internship and residency at the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in New York City. He completed his general cardiology fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA, under Dr. Jeremy Swan, and subsequently a dedicated fellowship in advanced coronary angioplasty with Dr. Geoffrey O. Hartzler in Kansas City, MO.