My professional focus is equally directed on the direct care of patients intimately combined with teaching Fellows diagnostic and interventional therapeutic cardiac procedures in the catheterization laboratory. I consider it a significant priviledge to work side by side with so many other experts in the provision of excellent health care. In particular Faculty status at Cornell provides me with the time and oportunity to practice the discipline of cardiac catheterization in the most professional manner. I greatly enjoy the responsibility of teaching Fellows the skills and importance of the catheterization laboratory. Comining this with an interest in clinically based outcomes type research completes my busy schedule.