W. Lee Bailey, MD, FACC, FSCAI

WELCOME

Dr. Bailey has been practicing Cardiology in the Los Angeles area since 1993. Born in Tennessee, he received his bachelor’s degree in Molecular Biology from Vanderbilt University, graduating with highest honors. After four years of medical school at Yale University, he completed his Internal Medicine Internship and Residency at the Cornell University Medical Center in New York City (The New York Hospital and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center).

Lee moved to Los Angeles in 1989 to complete his Fellowship in Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He was privileged to serve as Chief Fellow of Cardiology during his final year, 1992. Afterwards, he traveled to Kansas City for a fourth year of sub-specialty fellowship training in Interventional Cardiology at the Mid-America Heart Institute associated with St. Luke’s Hospital. This training was under the mentorship of one of this country’s leading pioneer interventional cardiologists – Dr. Geoffrey Hartzler.

Board certified in both Cardiovascular Diseases and Interventional Cardiology, as well as a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (F.A.C.C.) and Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions (F.S.C.A.I.), Dr. Bailey’s expertise includes the newest aspects of interventional cardiology including complex, multi-vessel percutaneous (through a small 1/4 inch skin incision) revascularization (opening of blocked arteries), intracoronary stenting (tiny wire scaffolds delivered into arteries to maintain patency) including the new drug eluding devices, and immediate balloon angioplasty for prompt termination of coronary artery obstruction responsible for the majority of heart attacks (myocardial infarction or MI).

Dr. Bailey was one of the founding physicians of the Valley Cardiovascular Specialists, a group of previously independent Cardiologists which came together in 2008 to serve the needs of those in our region. Over the past decade in addition to his extensive experience in interventional cardiology, Dr Bailey has also developed a keen interest in risk factor modification and preventative cardiac disease. He looks forward to helping you professionally manage your ongoing significant cardiovascular health care needs.