Mark K. Urman, MD, FACC, FASE
Co-Director, Preventive and Consultative Heart Center
Immediate-Past Clinical Chief, Division of Cardiology
Mark K. Urman, MD is Co-Director of the Preventive and Consultative Heart Center at the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute and Immediate-Past Clinical Chief of the Division of Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he has been in practice since 1994. He is also an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Medical Center. His main interests are clinical and consultative cardiology, coronary artery disease, congestive heart failure, echocardiography and preventive cardiology.
Dr. Urman is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology as well as the American Society of Echocardiography and is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases and echocardiography. He is also on the Medical Advisory Board of The Heart Foundation at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, an organization involved in raising funds for cardiac research.
Dr. Urman has had the distinction of being named one of "America's Top Physicians" in Cardiology by the Consumer's Research Council of America every year since 2003 and was listed in the Guide to America's Top Cardiologists for preventive cardiology in 2006 and echocardiography in 2007. Dr. Urman was featured in the "Super Doctors" section of the December 2008 issue of Los Angeles magazine. These top physicians were selected by their peers, and Dr. Urman was chosen as one of the best cardiologists in Southern California. In 1991, he was awarded the Ben Newman, MD Award at Cedars-Sinai in recognition for compassion and empathy toward his patients. Dr. Urman was recognized for his outstanding teaching of cardiology trainees at Cedars-Sinai in 2006/2007.
Dr. Urman has written many articles in peer-reviewed publications, including the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Radiology and Echocardiography. In addition to his published research articles, Dr. Urman has lectured extensively on hyperlipidemia, hypertension, heart failure and the pharmacological and lifestyle management of cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Urman received his bachelor's and medical degrees from Northwestern University where he was enrolled in the Honors Program. He completed his internal medicine internship and residency at Cedars-Sinai and his cardiology fellowship at the UCLA-West Los Angeles Veteran's Administration Medical Center.
