Peter Salgo

Peter Salgo, M.D., is the associate director of the Open Heart ICU at New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. He is also an Emmy Award-winning medical journalist, practicing physician, and respected health-care futurist who has been speakng about health care and heart care, in particular, for more than twenty-five years. Currently practicing anesthesiology and internal medicine at Presbyterian Hospital, Dr. Salgo also teaches at Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He lives in New York with his wife, Heidi.