Art of the Heart

Jay H. Kleiman, MD, is a retired interventional cardiologist with over thirty-five years of clinical, biomedical research, and management experience. He was a pre-medical and medical student at the University of Michigan and medical intern at the University of Chicago. He fulfilled his military service obligation as a research associate at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He was an Internal Medicine resident at Georgetown University and a subspeciality Cardiology Fellow at Stanford University.More than twenty years later, Dr. Kleiman's love of clinical research led him to serve as medical director for large cardiac drug development clinical trials. One trial led to the successful introduction of a new medication.Dr. Kleiman is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiology. He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians (FACP) and American College of Cardiology (FACC). He earned a master's degree in Public Administration (MPA) from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He has been an active advocate for patients and physicians over his career. As a practicing clinical cardiologist at a large university affiliated community teaching hospital, Dr Kleiman was among the first to introduce the ground-breaking technique of cardiac and leg balloon angioplasty and stenting in Chicago. Dr. Kleiman lives in Chicago with his wife, Georgi, a retired critical care nurse.