RobertLWilenskyMD

Cardiology • Philadelphia, PA

Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Interventional Cardiology

Professor, Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine

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Office
3400 Civic Center Blvd
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone+1 800-789-7366

Fax+1 215-615-3073
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Education & Training

Indiana University School of MedicineFellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 1988 - 1991
MedStar Health/Georgetown University HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 1985 - 1988
University of Amsterdam Faculty of MedicineClass of 1984

Certifications & Licensure

PA State Medical License 1996 - 2022
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

CMS Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification EpicCare Ambulatory EMR, Epic Systems Corporation, 2012-2013
Fellow (FACC) American College of Cardiology

Clinical Trials

Study of Percutaneous Renal Artery Intervention for Patient With Heart Failure Start of enrollment: 2011 Jun 01
Withdrawn
Not Applicable

Publications & Presentations

PubMed

4 citations
Management of spontaneous coronary artery dissection: Trends over time.
Elliot Feldbaum, Elizabeth W Thompson, Tessa S Cook, Monika Sanghavi, Robert L Wilensky, Paul N Fiorilli, Jennifer Lewey> ;Vascular Medicine. 2023 Apr 1
1 citations
Incorporating economic analysis in interventional cardiology research.
Michael L O'Byrne, Robert Wilensky, Andrew C Glatz> ;Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 2023 Jan 1
3 citations
Hypertension urgencies in the SPYRAL HTN-OFF MED Pivotal trial.
Michael A Weber, Roland E Schmieder, David E Kandzari, Raymond R Townsend, Felix Mahfoud, Konstantinos Tsioufis, Kazuomi Kario, Stuart Pocock, Fotis Tatakis, Sebastian...> ;Clinical Research in Cardiology. 2022 Nov 1
4 citations
Stent-based delivery of AAV2 vectors encoding oxidation-resistant apoA1.
Bahman Hooshdaran, Benjamin B Pressly, Ivan S Alferiev, Jonathan D Smith, Philip W Zoltick, Cory M Tschabrunn, Robert L Wilensky, Robert C Gorman, Robert J Levy, Ilia ...> ;Scientific Reports. 2022 Mar 31
Stent-Based Gene Delivery for Coronary Disease.
Ivan S Alferiev, Michael Chorny, Robert L Wilensky, Robert J Levy, Ilia Fishbein> ;Methods in Molecular Biology. 2022 Jan 1
11 citations
Robust quantitative assessment of collagen fibers with picrosirius red stain and linearly polarized light as demonstrated on atherosclerotic plaque samples.
Cherry Greiner, Stephanie J. Grainger, Samantha L. Farrow, Alena Davis, Jimmy Su, Matthew D. Saybolt, Robert L. Wilensky, Sean Madden, Stephen T. Sum> ;Plos One. 2021 Mar 18
247 citations
Efficacy of catheter-based renal denervation in the absence of antihypertensive medications (SPYRAL HTN-OFF MED Pivotal): a multicentre, randomised, sham-controlled trial
Michael Böhm, Kazuomi Kario, David E. Kandzari, Felix Mahfoud, Michael A. Weber, Roland E. Schmieder, Konstantinos Tsioufis, Stuart J. Pocock, Dimitris Konstantinidis,...> ;Lancet. 2020 May 2
13 citations
Impact Of Cirrhosis On 90-Day Outcomes After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (from A Nationwide Database).
Daniel Y Lu, Diala Steitieh, Dmitriy N. Feldman, Jim W. Cheung, S. Chiu Wong, Hadi J. Halazun, Karim J. Halazun, Nivee Amin, Joseph Wang, John K. Chae, Robert L. Wilen...> ;The American Journal of Cardiology. 2020 May 1
13 citations
One-Year Outcomes of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention in Patients with End-Stage Liver Disease:
Daniel Y Lu, Matthew D. Saybolt, Daniel Kiss, William H. Matthai, Kimberly A. Forde, Jay Giri, Robert L. Wilensky> ;Clinical Medicine Insights. Cardiology. 2020 Jan 22
31 citations
Prospective CYP2C19 Genotyping to Guide Antiplatelet Therapy Following Percutaneous Coronary Intervention: A Pragmatic Randomized Clinical Trial.
Sony Tuteja, Henry A. Glick, William H. Matthai, Irving Nachamkin, Ashwin S. Nathan, Karen Monono, Craig Carcuffe, Karen Maslowski, Gene Chang, Taisei Kobayashi, Saif ...> ;Circulation. Genomic and Precision Medicine. 2020 Jan 10
Correlating Intramural Biochemistry and Elasticity in Patients With Ascending Aortic Aneurysms.
Robert L. Wilensky> ;Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine. 2019 Apr 1
457 citations
Effect of renal denervation on blood pressure in the presence of antihypertensive drugs: 6-month efficacy and safety results from the SPYRAL HTN-ON MED proof-of-concep...
David E. Kandzari, Michael Böhm, Felix Mahfoud, Raymond R. Townsend, Michael A. Weber, Stuart J. Pocock, Konstantinos Tsioufis, Dimitrios Tousoulis, James W. Choi, Car...> ;Lancet. 2018 Jun 9
Multimodality Imaging to Guide Stenting of an Occluded Pulmonary Vein Following Atrial Fibrillation Ablation
Matthew C. Hyman, Jian-Fang Ren, Venkatesh Y. Anjan, Robert L. Wilensky, David S. Frankel> ;JACC. Clinical Electrophysiology. 2017 Apr 1
27 citations
Comparative Outcomes After Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Among Black and White Patients Treated at US Veterans Affairs Hospitals.
Taisei Kobayashi, Thomas J. Glorioso, Ehrin J. Armstrong, Thomas M. Maddox, Mary E. Plomondon, Gary K. Grunwald, Steven M. Bradley, Thomas T. Tsai, Stephen W. Waldo, S...> ;JAMA Cardiology. 2017 Sep 1
447 citations
Catheter-based renal denervation in patients with uncontrolled hypertension in the absence of antihypertensive medications (SPYRAL HTN-OFF MED): a randomised, sham-con...
Raymond R. Townsend, Felix Mahfoud, David E. Kandzari, Kazuomi Kario, Stuart J. Pocock, Michael A. Weber, Sebastian Ewen, Konstantinos Tsioufis, Dimitrios Tousoulis, A...> ;Lancet. 2017 Nov 11
16 citations
Text mining applied to electronic cardiovascular procedure reports to identify patients with trileaflet aortic stenosis and coronary artery disease
Aeron Small, Daniel Kiss, Yevgeny Zlatsin, David Birtwell, Heather Williams, Marie A Guerraty, Yuchi Han, Saif Anwaruddin, John H. Holmes, Julio A. Chirinos, Robert L....> ;Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2017 Aug 1
9 citations
Robotic-assisted percutaneous coronary intervention.
Daniel Mangels, Jay Giri, John W. Hirshfeld, Robert L. Wilensky> ;Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 2017 Jul 19
33 citations
Quantitative angiography in South Asians reveals differences in vessel size and coronary artery disease severity compared to Caucasians.
Rani K. Hasan, Naeema Ginwala, Rhia Shah, Dharam J. Kumbhani, Robert L. Wilensky, Nehal N. Mehta> ;American Journal of Cardiovascular Disease. 2011 Jan 1
33 citations
Retinal pathology is associated with increased blood-retina barrier permeability in a diabetic and hypercholesterolaemic pig model: Beneficial effects of the LpPLA2 in...
Nimish K. Acharya, Xin Qi, Eric L. Goldwaser, George A. Godsey, Hao Wu, Mary C. Kosciuk, Theresa A. Freeman, Colin H. Macphee, Robert L. Wilensky, Venkat Venkataraman,...> ;Diabetes & Vascular Disease Research. 2017 Mar 1
A DES RevElution
Robert L. Wilensky> ;JACC. Cardiovascular Interventions. 2017 Jan 23
4 citations
Bioresorbable Scaffolds for Coronary Artery Disease
Ashwin S. Nathan, Taisei Kobayashi, Daniel M. Kolansky, Robert L. Wilensky, Jay Giri> ;Current Cardiology Reports. 2017 Jan 20
TCT-603 Traditional Coronary Risk Factors are Only Weakly Associated with Collagen Integrity of Caps over Lipid Cores in Selected Coronary Autopsy Specimens.
Grainger S, Greiner C, Su J, Saybolt M, Pickering W, Wilensky R, Raichlen J, Muller J, Madden S> ;J. Am. Coll. Cardiol.. 2016-11-01
TCT-575 Combined near-infrared spectroscopy and intravascular ultrasound (NIRS-IVUS) coronary imaging as a means to improve prediction of events by IVUS plaque burden ...
Su J, Greiner C, Grainger S, Saybolt M, Pickering W, Wilensky R, Raichlen J, He V, Sum S, Muller J, Madden S> ;J. Am. Coll. Cardiol.. 2016-11-01
Going Green for Vulnerable Plaque Detection
Robert L. Wilensky, Matthew D. Saybolt> ;JACC. Cardiovascular Imaging. 2016 Sep 1
3 citations
Is multivessel intervention in ST-elevation myocardial infarction associated with early harm? Insights from observational data.
Saurav Chatterjee, Robert W. Yeh, Partha Sardar, Hafeez Ul Hassan Virk, Debabrata Mukherjee, Sahil A. Parikh, Dharam J. Kumbhani, Ajay J. Kirtane, Riyaz Bashir, Howard...> ;Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 2016 Nov 1
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