Castle Connolly Doctor ID: 101CC000001
Specialty: Cardiovascular Disease
Special Expertise: Coronary Artery Disease, Congestive Heart Failure, Arrhythmias, Preventive Cardiology
Hospital Affiliation: Boca Raton Regional Hospital
Mark H. Rubenstein M.D. began practicing cardiology in Boca Raton, Florida in 2002. He graduated from Harvard College in 1990, receiving the John Harvard Scholarship for Academic Achievement of Highest Distinction. After one year of genetic research at Genentech, Inc. in San Francisco, California, he began Harvard Medical School. He graduated in 1995 and began an internship followed by residency in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston, Massachusetts.
In 1998, he began his fellowship in Cardiology at MGH. He specialized in Interventional Cardiology, training in angioplasty, coronary stenting, rotational atherectomy, brachytherapy, distal protection devices, ASD/PFO closures, aortic/mitral valvuloplasty and peripheral intervention. While at MGH, he was involved in many new device and stent trials, including the pivotal North American trial of the Cypher drug-eluting stent, the first drug-coated stent approved by the FDA in 2003 for the treatment of coronary artery disease.
During his tenure at MGH, he published a number of research articles in major cardiology journals.
He is Board Certified in Cardiovascular Disease, focusing his practice on consultative cardiology including coronary artery disease, cardiac arrhythmias, congestive heart failure, valvular heart disease, adult congenital heart disease and preventative cardiology. He is an active member of the Florida Medical Association, the Massachusetts Medical Society, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association.