Robert J. Sommer MD

Robert J. Sommer, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University, and the Director, Invasive Adult Congenital Heart Disease and Invasive Structural Interventions at the Center for Interventional Vascular Therapy at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. He is also affiliated with the Adult and Pediatrics Congenital Heart Program at St. Joseph's Hospital in Paterson, NJ. In addition to his Columbia site, Dr. Sommer has patient offices in Westchester County, New Jersey and Long Island.
Dr. Sommer has been caring for patients with congenital heart disease for nearly 30 years. In his current practice, he sees both Pediatric and Adult aged patients with birth defects of the heart. Echocardiography, electrocardiography, oximetry and transcranial Doppler evaluations are all available in his office. In addition to the office management of the patients with congenital heart disease, Dr. Sommer is a nationally recognized expert on the catheter assessment and intervention for congenital and structural heart disease. Dr. Sommer also directs the Left Atrial Appendage Closure program, a rapidly growing procedure designed to reduce stroke and to eliminate the need for long term oral anticoagulant blood thinners in patients with atrial fibrillation.