Steven Nissen

Who is Steven Nissen?

Steven E. Nissen, is a cardiologist, researcher and patient advocate. He is chairman of cardiovascular medicine at the Cleveland Clinic, in Cleveland, Ohio.

Nissen graduated high school from the Webb School of California and pursued his undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan. He then went on to receive his medical degree from the University of Michigan School of Medicine in Ann Arbor. He completed his internal medicine internship and residency at the University of California, Davis in Sacramento, thereafter completed his cardiology fellowship at the University of Kentucky Medical Center in Lexington.

Joining Cleveland Clinic in 1992, Nissen served as Vice-Chairman of the Department of Cardiology, Section Head of Clinical Cardiology and Director of the Coronary Intensive Care Unit. Most recently, he served as Medical Director of the Cleveland Clinic Cardiovascular Coordinating Center, an organization that directs multi-center clinical trials. Nissen still attends in the Cardiac Critical Care Unit periodically throughout the year.