Physician first. Builder by habit.

Jeffrey Bander, MD, FACC, is Chief of Cardiology at Mount Sinai West and Associate Director of the Cardiovascular Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine (Cardiology) and, since 2026, in the Windreich Department of Artificial Intelligence and Human Health.

Dr. Bander received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School, trained in internal medicine at Columbia Presbyterian, and completed fellowships in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology at The Mount Sinai Hospital under Drs. Valentin Fuster, Samin Sharma and Annapoorna Kini. He joined the Mount Sinai faculty in 2011 and is board certified in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology. His practice focuses on complex coronary disease, high-risk percutaneous coronary intervention and heart failure.

As a health-system leader he has built programs that widen access to cardiac care: the Rapid Cardiac Evaluation Unit, an urgent outpatient cardiac clinic; a coronary CT angiography program and an amyloid program at Mount Sinai West; cardiac imaging delivered in primary care offices across New York City; and a heart failure program for skilled nursing facilities. He co-founded the Mount Sinai and Uniformed Fire Officers Association hypertension program for New York City fire officers and has extended remote monitoring and cardiac screening to first responders.

His research joins clinical trials with new technology. He has served as principal investigator on SandboxAQ-sponsored studies of magnetocardiography for detecting ischemia in the emergency department, and as an investigator on trials in inflammation, heart failure and coronary disease. He directs the MSW AI Lab, where physicians, nurses and program staff build and evaluate AI tools for documentation, patient outreach and decision support.

Dr. Bander is the co-founder and Chief Medical Officer of ReferWell, a referral connectivity company, and the founder and Chief Medical Officer of Provider Loop, which developed a heart failure readmission-reduction program for nursing homes. He directs the CLIMB clinical skills training program on AI in cardiology practice for Women As One. His recognitions include the American Heart Association Leader of Impact Award, the Health 2.0 Design in Health Award, awards from the Uniformed Fire Officers Association and the Lieutenants Benevolent Association of the NYPD, and Castle Connolly Top Doctors, New York (2023–2026).

Dr. Bander has been a teaching attending for cardiology fellows and medicine residents since 2013, in the cardiac catheterization laboratory, the consult service and the wards. He was named Teacher of the Year for Interventional Cardiology at The Mount Sinai Hospital in 2017.

At Mount Sinai West he created and leads the Scribe Program, which gives pre-medical students sustained exposure to cardiovascular care. Participants have gone on to medical school and have presented research and case reports at national meetings.

Fellows he has mentored now practice and lead in New York, Pennsylvania, Florida and Pakistan, including a chief of cardiology and several academic faculty.

In the community, he gives talks on heart disease prevention, blood pressure and wellness to firefighters, union members and community organizations.

Since 2025 he has directed the CLIMB Clinical Skills Training Program for Women As One, a curriculum on applying artificial intelligence in cardiology practice.