Leandro S. Bustamante
3400 Bainbridge Avenue, 7th Floor Area B, 
Bronx, NY 

Overview

Leandro Slipczuk Bustamante, MD, PhD, FACC is a board certified cardiologist,  Director of the Advanced Cardiac Imaging Program and the Cardiovascular Atherosclerosis and Lipid Disorder Center at Montefiore Cardiology Division. Additionally, Dr. Slipczuk is an Assistant Professor at our Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His clinical focus is the treatment of coronary artery disease, familial hypercholesterolemia and lipid disorders in both prevention and established diseases, cardiometabolic disorders, hypertension, valvular heart disease and heart failure with a comprehensive clinical and multimodality imaging approach.

His clinical expertise encompasses Pulmonary Edema, Heart Failure, Angina, and Heart Attack.

Dr. Bustamante is board certified in Certification Board Of Nuclear Cardiology and American Board Of IM/Cardiovascular Disease. Dr. Bustamante is currently accepting new patients.

Specialties

Cardiology

Licenses

Internal Medicine in PA

Board Certifications

Certification Board Of Nuclear Cardiology
American Board Of IM/Cardiovascular Disease

Fellowships

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

Hospital Affiliations

Montefiore Medical Center
Montefiore New Rochelle Hospital
White Plains Hospital Center
Nyack Hospital

Languages Spoken

English
Spanish

Gender

Male

Insurance

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Archcare
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Blue Shield of California
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Humana
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Locations

Montefiore Einstein Center for Heart & Vascular Care
3400 Bainbridge Avenue, 7th Floor Area B, Bronx, NY 10467
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