W. Lee Bailey MD, FACC
Cardiologist, Division of Cardiology
W. Lee Bailey MD, FACC, is an attending cardiologist with the Division of Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. His primary clinical and research interests include consultative and interventional cardiology.
Board certified in cardiovascular diseases, and a fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC), Dr. Bailey is an expert in 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 received his bachelor's degree from Vanderbilt University and his medical degree from Yale University. He completed his internal medicine internship and residency at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and he fulfilled his fellowship in cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He was Chief Fellow of Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in 1992. He then completed an advanced fellowship in interventional cardiology at the Mid-America Heart Institute associated with St. Luke's Hospital in Kansas City, MO. He has been practicing in the Los Angeles area since 1993.
