Miguel Alvarez Villela, MD is an Assistant Professor of Cardiology at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He practices Interventional Cardiology and Advanced Heart Failure at Lenox Hill Hospital and Northshore University Hospital. He currently serves as the Director of Interventional Heart Failure at Lenox Hill Hospital. This newly created division focuses on the use of mechanical circulatory support in patients with acute heart failure and novel device-based therapies for patients with chronic heart failure. Dr. Alvarez Villela is originally from Honduras. He received his medical degree from the University of Navarra in Spain in 2009. He then came to the United States and went on to complete his residency in Internal Medicine at Bridgeport Hospital - Yale University, followed by a Fellowship in Undersea and Hyperbaric Medicine at Duke University. He then completed fellowships in Cardiovascular Disease at Montefiore Medical Center - Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology at University of Utah, and Interventional Cardiology at Montefiore Medical Center - Albert Einstein College of Medicine. His research interests include cardiogenic shock, mechanical circulatory support, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and coronary artery disease.