John Wang is a Baltimore interventional cardiologist and MedStar Health scientific leader whose work spans structural heart procedures, transradial catheterization, and clinical research on coronary devices. He is identified as Scientific Lead for Structural Heart and Interventional Cardiology and as chief of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital. His clinical interests include complex angioplasty, chronic total occlusions, transradial catheterization, and TAVR. Wang earned undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Chicago, completed internal-medicine residency and fellowships at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and received an MSc in Epidemiology from Harvard in 2002-2003. His research interests include the safety and efficacy of interventional technologies, particularly coronary stents, and he has held leadership roles in the OMEGA and EXCEL studies.
Principal investigator or sub-investigator on more than 40 interventional cardiology studies
Research interests
Chronic total occlusionsComplex angioplastyInterventional cardiologistTranscatheter aortic valve replacementTransradial cardiac catheterizationSafety and efficacy of new interventional cardiology devices and technologies, especially coronary stentsThe Radial Lounge, Revisited
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