Adam W. Dell
Frederick Welt, M.D. is Vice Chair, Clinical Affairs, Dept. of Medicine & Chief, Interventional Cardiology. He is a professor of medicine and a member of the Interventional Cardiology faculty. Dr. Welt most recently served as the Director of Interventional Cardiology at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, as well as Director of the Interventional Cardiovascular Experimental Laboratory. His clinical practice included outpatient clinical care and performing diagnostic catheterizations and coronary interventions. Dr. Welt specializes in interventional coronary and structural heart disease cases, including Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR). His clinical responsibilities include the invasive management of acute heart attacks, assessment of valvular heart disease, coronary stent implantation/balloon angioplasty, and PFO/ASD closure. He is also an active clinical investigator, having been involved in the PARTNER trial of transcatheter aortic valve replacement devices, translational research of novel devices to treat structural heart disease, and protocols involving stem cell therapy for cardiac disease. Dr. Welt graduated from Yale University School of Medicine in 1992 and completed residency and fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston. He also served as Chief Resident at the West Roxbury VA Hospital and completed a research fellowship at Harvard Medical School. In addition to practicing and teaching at BWH and Harvard, he has written numerous journal articles and served as a reviewer for publications.
