Ozgen Dogan

Bio

Dr. Ozgen Dogan is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Columbia University and practices cardiology at New York Presbyterian Hospital – Columbia University Medical Center and Downstate Long Island College Hospital.


He is a partner in the Diagnostic Cardiology outpatient noninvasive cardiac center, offering programs in nuclear cardiology, echocardiography, stress testing , stress reduction (yoga) , diet , cardiac rehabilitation and exercise. He has authored over 40 original publications, abstracts and an emergency medicine and a cardiologyhandbook. His main interest is in preventive cardiology and he believes that heart disease can be successfully treated with diet, exercise and other life style modifications. He invests most of his time in his patients, teaching his junior colleagues and medical students. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular diseases, Nuclear Cardiology and Echocardiography.


Dr. Dogan graduated from Robert College in Istanbul in 1980 and attended Cerrahpasa Medical School from 1980 to 1986. He completed internal medicine, critical care and cardiovascular fellowships in Boston and New York (Memorial Sloan Kettering and LICH). He also did Total Parenteral Nutrition training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and American College of Nuclear Cardiology. He is an elected council member of the American College of Cardiology NY Chapter. He is an active soccer coach and player.



Specialties:

  • cardiology

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    TUESDAY, March 12 (HealthDay News) -- A simple blood test conducted annually in your primary care doctor's office might be a first step in preventing heart failure, a new study suggests.

    The next steps include getting a diagnostic echocardiogram and then receiving coordinated care between...Full Article

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    FRIDAY, March 8 (HealthDay News) -- Television ads for cholesterol-lowering statin drugs may lead to overdiagnosis of high cholesterol and overtreatment with the drugs, according to a new study.

    The research found that patients' visits with doctors to ask about ...Full Article

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    WEDNESDAY, March 6 (HealthDay News) -- Insomnia may triple the risk of developing heart failure, a large new study from Norway suggests.

    Heart problems definitely lead to sleep problems, said lead researcher Dr. Lars Laugsand, but his team tried to determine whether the reverse might als...Full Article

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    TUESDAY, Feb. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Combining the vitamin niacin with a cholesterol-lowering statin drug appears to raise side effects in heart patients, a new study indicates.

    Muscle, skin and gastrointestinal problems were among the side effects that caused one-quarter of patients to s...Full Article

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    WEDNESDAY, Feb. 20 (HealthDay News) Exposure to smog is linked to higher death risk among people admitted to the hospital for a heart attack, a new study suggests.

    British researchers found death rates for these patients increased following exposure to air pollution from fine "particulate...Full Article

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    TUESDAY, Feb. 19 (HealthDay News) -- A new survey suggests that while public health campaigns have prompted a growing number of American women to recognize that heart disease is the biggest risk to their well-being, a racial gap in awareness remains as wide as ever.

    Overall, 56 percent of...Full Article

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    TUESDAY, Feb. 12 (HealthDay News) -- Women eating a high-calcium diet and taking calcium supplements adding up to more than 1,400 milligrams a day may be running nearly twice the risk of dying from heart disease, a large Swedish study suggests.

    Both men and women take calcium supplements...Full Article

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    THURSDAY, Feb. 7 (HealthDay News) -- Olympic gymnastics champion Gabby Douglas wowed the crowd in crimson, actress/designer Kelly Osbourne flaunted cherry red, and pop star Toni Braxton strutted in ruby Wednesday evening in New York City, all part of the annual Red Dress Collection show to boost ...Full Article

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    WEDNESDAY, Feb. 6 (HealthDay News) -- Enduring dietary wisdom -- that polyunsaturated vegetable fats are better for your heart than saturated animal fats -- may be turned on its head by a fresh analysis of a nearly 50-year-old study.

    The reasoning has been that a diet rich in omega-6 poly...Full Article

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    THURSDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Americans are being urged to look through their closets for anything crimson, scarlet or apple-red to wear Friday, in support of the American Heart Association's annual Go Red for Women campaign.

    National Wear Red Day -- now in its 10th year -- is aim...Full Article

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    THURSDAY, Jan. 31 (HealthDay News) -- Marriage appears to reduce the risk of heart attacks for both men and women, according to researchers in Finland.

    Other studies have shown that being single or living alone increases the risk for developing and dying from he...Full Article

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    WEDNESDAY, Jan. 9 (HealthDay News) -- New research suggests that beta blockers, medications that are used to control blood pressure and heart rhythms, may also help lung cancer patients live longer.

    The researchers found that patients with non-small-cell lung cancer being treated with rad...Full Article

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    WEDNESDAY, Dec. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Patients with blocked leg arteries are less likely to suffer complications after a procedure to open their arteries if they quit smoking and take aspirin and cholesterol-lowering statins, a new study indicates.

    However, too few patients take such ste...Full Article

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    THURSDAY, Dec. 20 (HealthDay News) -- The blood thinner Pradaxa should not be used to prevent stroke or blood clots in patients with mechanical heart valves, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said in a warning issued Wednesday.

    As the agency noted, a clinical trial in Europe was halte...Full Article

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    WEDNESDAY, Dec. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Residents of several Southern states are among the most likely to have poor heart health in the United States, a new study finds.

    But the country as a whole is having trouble. Only about 3 percent of U.S. adults surveyed who don't have heart problems...Full Article