Peter R. Kowey, MD, FACC, FACP, FACCP, FHRS

Chief
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
Lankenau Hospital
Main Line Health System
 
Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology
Jefferson Medical College
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Peter R. Kowey, MD, FACC, FACP, FACCP, FHRS, is Chief of the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Lankenau Hospital Main Line Health System as well as President of Main Line Health Heart Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Dr. Kowey is Professor of Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology at Jefferson Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia. He has led in the development of several antiarrhythmic drugs and antitachycardia devices used to treat life-threatening cardiac rhythm problems.

Dr. Kowey studied Honors Biology at St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to graduate cum laude. He earned his medical degree at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and completed a straight medicine internship at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center of Pennsylvania State University. Dr. Kowey performed his Internal Medicine residency, followed by fellowships in Cardiology at Harvard University School of Public Health and Peter Bent Brigham Hospital; and Cardiovascular Medicine and Research at West Roxbury VA Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

Dr. Kowey is a Fellow of several professional organizations, including the American College of Cardiology, the American College of Physicians, the American College of Chest Physicians, and the Heart Rhythm Society. He is a founding member of the Philadelphia Arrhythmia Group and a charter member of the North American Society of Pacing and Electrophysiology. Dr. Kowey spent nine years as a member of the Cardiorenal Drug Advisory Committee, four years on the Cardiovascular Devices Committee of the Food and Drug Administration, and is on the Expert Advisory Panel of the US Pharmacopeial convention. He has been the recipient of over 150 grants and has authored or co-authored over 400 research articles and scientific reports. Dr. Kowey is a referee for manuscript review for 25 journals and sits on the editorial boards for Heart Rhythm Journal and the Journal of Cardiovascular Electrophysiology.