Michelle Weisfelner Bloom, MD, a well-respected and nationally recognized advanced heart failure cardiologist and cardio-oncologist, joined NYU in December of 2023 as the System Director of Cardio-Oncology for the NYU Langone System, site director for the NYU-Long Island Cardio-Oncology Program, and Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine with dual academic appointments at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the NYU Long Island School of Medicine. She joins NYU from Stony Brook Medicine, where she practiced as an advanced heart failure cardiologist and cardio-oncologist for 12 years. At Stony Brook, she served as the Director of the outpatient Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy Center and the Co-Director of the Stony Brook Cardio-Oncology program and an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine.
Dr Bloom founded and developed the Stony Brook Cardio-Oncology Program in 2015 as the first program of its kind in Long Island, NY. Over the last 9 years, the center has offered state of the art care including novel imaging, surveillance, and complex cardiac care to patients with cancer, and has served as a regional referral center for cardiac care in patients with cancer throughout Long Island. Under Dr. Bloom’s direction, the Stony Brook Cardio-Oncology center rose to national prominence and was recognized with the highest Gold Designation as a Center of Excellence by the International Cardio-Oncology Society in 2022.
Dr. Bloom holds the distinction of Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and Fellow of the Heart Failure Society of America. She was also designated amongst a small and distinguished group as a Fellow of the International Cardio-Oncology Society.
She has extensive clinical experience in both advanced heart failure and cardio-oncology and has been consistently recognized for by both her patients and colleagues for her excellence in clinical care and education. Before leaving Stony Brook University, she was awarded “Master Clinician” through the Stony Brook Department of Medicine. She is lauded as a cherished mentor for countless trainees from high school through fellowship and is a passionate teacher both at the bedside and in the medical school, known for her impassioned role as a mentor and advocate for women in medicine. She is currently serving as the co chair of a Scientific Statement on Cardio-Oncology and Heart Failure, sponsored by the Heart Failure Society of America which is planned for publication in October. She has spoken locally and nationally on topics of heart failure and cardio-oncology, serving as a resource for the building of a successful cardio-oncology program.
Within NYU Langone Heart, Dr. Bloom partners with the NYU Perlmutter Cancer Center, along with a team of multidisciplinary specialists to evaluate, manage and treat patients with cancer at risk for cardiac disease, including those who have developed cardiac disease as a result of cancer therapy and those who are survivors of childhood cancers with unique risk for early and high-risk cardiac disease. Dr. Bloom also cares for patients with advanced heart failure as a member of the NYU Langone Advanced Heart Failure team.
Dr. Bloom completed her cardiology and advanced heart failure and cardiac transplantation fellowships at the Mount Sinai Medical Center, after completing an Internal Medicine residency at Montefiore Hospital. She has been repeatedly recognized as a Castle Connolly Newsday and New York Times Top Doctor, New York Super Doctor, and Exceptional Woman in Medicine. Dr. Bloom has been featured on several media outlets including Healthination, “GoodRx,” and News 12 Long Island. She has also made appearances on NYU Langone’s Doctor Radio and “Katz’s Corner.”
Dr. Bloom sees patients in both the Perlmutter Cancer Centers and Heart Failure Centers in Manhattan and Mineola.