Dr. David Wiener is Director of Clinical Operations at the Jefferson Heart Institute, where he oversees operations, planning and development of the clinical faculty cardiology group at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. He is a member of the Echocardiography Laboratory faculty and maintains an active outpatient and inpatient clinical cardiology practice. He is Clinical Professor of Medicine at Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, where he received multiple teaching awards.
Dr. Wiener’s interests center on high-value, quality cardiac care and imaging. He is a long-term ASE member and has been an active contributor to ASE since 2008. As Chair of ASE’s Advocacy Committee, he helped increase ASE’s voice in health policy in Washington, DC. Dr. Wiener was a founding Co-Chair of the Twitter Echo Journal Club. He is the current Chair of the Guidelines and Standards Committee where he leads the Living Guidelines initiative. He served as a member of ASE’s Board of Directors (2016-2019); and represented ASE on the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission – Echocardiography’s Board of Directors from 2016-2022, where he was Officer-At-Large, helping align the two societies for quality through the ImageGuideEcho registry. In 2016, Dr. Wiener received ASE’s Meritorious Service Award.
Dr. Wiener received his undergraduate degree from Columbia University and his medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed postgraduate training in internal medicine at Montefiore Medical Center and in cardiology at Presbyterian-University of Pennsylvania Medical Center and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the American Heart Association and the American Society of Echocardiography; and is certified by NBE in comprehensive adult echocardiography.