Daichi Shimbo

Dr. Daichi Shimbo received a B.S. from the Johns Hopkins University in Biomedical Engineering (1991) and a M.D. from the Albany Medical College (1995). After completing an Internal Medicine residency (1998), Dr. Shimbo went on to complete Chief Medical residency in Internal Medicine (1999) and fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine (2003) at the Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, before joining the faculty at Columbia University in September 2003. Currently, Dr. Shimbo is Professor of Medicine at the Columbia University Irving Medical Center. He is a clinical cardiologist, committed to creating and disseminating an evidence-base of patient-oriented research in how hypertension and its different phenotypes are related to cardiovascular disease onset. In particular, Dr. Shimbo’s work has led to improvements in the diagnosis and treatment of hypertension subtypes associated with the highest cardiovascular disease and mortality risk. Dr. Shimbo is the Director of the Columbia Hypertension Center, and a non-invasive board-certified cardiologist.