Gervasio A. Lamas MD

Dr. Gervasio Lamas is the Chairman of Medicine and Chief of the Columbia University Division of Cardiology at Mount Sinai Medical Center. He comes from a medical and scientific family – his father and uncle were physicians and his mother was a biochemist.

Dr. Lamas grew up in South Florida, graduating from Ransom School for Boys, and promptly headed north to Boston, where he discovered he did not really like snow.

He received his B.A. in Biochemical Sciences cum laude from Harvard College and his M.D. with honors (AOA) from New York University. He completed his internship and residency and cardiology training at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital of Harvard Medical School, where he later served as Assistant Professor of Medicine.

Dr. Lamas returned to South Florida in 1993 when Mount Sinai recruited him as Chief of Cardiology. He later served as the hospital’s Director of Cardiovascular Research and Academic Affairs. From June 2008 until January 2009, he was Director of the Cardiology Fellowship Program at Jackson Memorial Hospital/ VAMC/University of Miami. Dr. Lamas returned to Mount Sinai in January 2009 when the hospital launched its Ivy League affiliation with Columbia University to assume the role of Chief of the Columbia University Division of Cardiology and Professor of Medicine, at Columbia University Medical Center. In 2011, Dr. Lamas was named the Chairman of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center.