Holly S. Andersen MD
Cardiologist; Director of Education and Outreach
The Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute at The New York Presbyterian Hospital
Holly S. Andersen, MD, is director of education and outreach at The Ronald O. Perelman Heart Institute at New York Presbyterian Hospital and associate professor of medicine and attending cardiologist at Cornell Cardiology Associates. Andersen has been selected as one of America's "Best Doctors" every year since 2001. She has published original work and presented at national and international medical conferences. She speaks extensively on preventive cardiology, mitral valve prolapse and is an authority on cardiovascular disease in athletes and in women. She is a National Advisory Board Member for The Women's Sports Foundation, has previously served as a Board Member for the Arthur Ashe Athletic Association, and she founded and chairs the David E. Rogers Memorial Research Award for the Medical Housestaff at The New York Presbyterian Hospital. She has been an expert medical panelist on internet webcasts and has been an on-air medical consultant to ABC World News Tonight, CBS Evening News, NBC Evening News, the Fox Television Network, the British Broadcasting Company and MTV. Andersen graduated from Dartmouth College, where she majored in neuroscience, served as President of the Nathan Smith Society, received the Ernest T. Saeger Memorial Award Scholarship for outstanding work in the premedical sciences, and won a research fellowship under Nobel Laureate, D. Carelton Gajdusek, MD, at the National Institutes of Health. She graduated with honors from the University of Rochester School of Medicine, where she was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society and awarded the Janet M. Glasgow Memorial Achievement Award from the American Medical Women's Association. Andersen completed her medical residency at The New York Hospital - Cornell Medical Center, where she served as chief medical resident. She is board certified in both internal medicine and cardiology.
