Vincent Figueredo Email & Phone Number

Vincent M. Figueredo is an author, speaker, and cardiologist. Dr. Figueredo has been a practicing cardiologist and physician-scientist for thirty years. His experience spans academic medicine, medical research, teaching, private practice, and senior hospital administration, including as chair of cardiology and professor of medicine. Figueredo’s research interests include how the heart responds to injury, alcohol, and stress.In more detail:Throughout his career, while taking care of hearts, Dr. Figueredo has continued to study the heart, trying to understand how it responds to injury, alcohol and stress.A recipient of 25 grants and a patent to understand heart disease, improve diagnostic heart imaging, and develop effective treatments for cardiovascular disease, Dr. Figueredo has worked with and taught students, residents and colleagues for over 3 decades. Recognized as a ‘Top Doctor’ by his peers, he has also been a recipient of multiple teaching awards. Dr. Figueredo has held numerous leadership positions throughout his career in academia and private practice, including chair of cardiology and vice chair of medicine, professor of medicine, program director for cardiovascular diseases fellowships, and director of the cardiac intensive care unit. He has directed cardiac rehabilitation programs, a lipid management program, a cardiology genetics clinic, and a resistant hypertension clinic. A former Pennsylvania governor for the American College of Cardiology and past-president of the Southeastern Pennsylvania American Heart Association board, Dr. Figueredo has also been a grant reviewer for the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Figueredo has published over 200 scientific papers in the medical literature and is an editor and reviewer for numerous medical and scientific journals. Dr. Figueredo was asked to write sections on “Alcohol Effects on the Cardiovascular System” for the Ninth and Tenth Special Reports to the U.S. Congress on Alcohol and Health from the Secretary of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.An invited lecturer nationally and around the world, he has presented at meetings of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association, the European Society of Cardiology, and the World Congress on Stress. Dr. Figueredo is a go to for local news organizations to provide insight on stories related to the heart.He lives outside of Philadelphia on Five Fig Farm with his wife Ann, surrounded by dogs, chickens, beehives, vegetable gardens, and rescued donkeys.