Craig Hjemdahl-Monsen, MD is currently Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at Columbia
University. He received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 1980.
After completing his internal medicine residency at University Hospitals of Cleveland, he
completed a clinical fellowship at Mount Sinai Hospital in NYC. He was the first physician
to complete a fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at Mount Sinai, in 1987. He is Board
Certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Interventional Cardiology. Prior to
joining the faculty at Columbia University in 2011, Dr. Hjemdahl-Monsen was Associate Chief
of the Division of Cardiology at Westchester Medical Center, in Valhalla, New York. While at
Westchester, he was on the faculty of New York Medical College. He was actively involved
in the medical school as a co-course director for Pathology/Pathophysiology for over twenty
years. He also organized several cardiology educational conferences. At Westchester Medical
Center, he led the design and software development of a multimodality Cardiology Information
System, which predated more recent electronic medical record systems, and was highlighted
at several national and international cardiology conferences. He also co-directed the Medical
Center’s Clinical Pathways initiative. More recently, he established the STEMI workgroup at
Westchester to improve treatment of patients with acute myocardial infarction. During his tenure
at Westchester, he also became a follower of the quality principles espoused by Edwards
Deming. He participated in many aspects of quality improvement. He was the Chairman of the
quality committees of the Department of Medicine as well as the Division of Cardiology. His
knowledge of process redesign help to establish the cardiac transfer center at Westchester
Medical Center. His clinical research interests have mostly centered around treatment of acute
coronary syndromes. He has written over 100 abstracts, papers, and book chapters. He has
also been an investigator in many multicenter trials. He has been named as a Top Doctor in the
Castle Connolly’s guide of Top Doctors.