Tedd Goldfinger

Tedd M. Goldfinger, DO, FACC, FCCP

A native of Brooklyn, New York, Dr. Goldfinger moved to Tucson in 1986, after completing his training in Interventional Cardiology and Clinical Cardiovascular Disease at the University Of New Mexico School Of Medicine in Albuquerque, NM. He founded Desert Cardiology of Tucson Heart Center in 1990, after seeing a need for comprehensive cardiac care for the Northwest Tucson communities.

Over the past two plus decades of practice in Tucson, Dr. Goldfinger has been integrally involved in the growth of Cardiology disease management in NW Tucson. He was the first cardiologist to perform cardiac catheterization and coronary angioplasty at Northwest Medical Center. He pioneered new technologies for the community, establishing the first diagnostic stress-echo lab, and was among the first cardiovascular specialists to use stents for the treatment of PVD. Locally, he had chaired a Tucson Cardiology Update Colloquium for 13 years to help educate the community physicians in the newest concepts in Cardiology practice.

Dr. Goldfinger is married to Melissa, a cardiac nurse specialist, and the couple has two children; Ryan, a recent graduate from University of Southern California, and Samuel, age 7.

As a senior cardiologist in the Tucson, Arizona community, Dr. Goldfinger continues to balance his clinical practice with research, writing, and teaching.

Dr . Goldfinger is widely published and speaks internationally on cardiology subjects. He has been a significant contributor to the knowledgebase on alcohol and cardiovascular disease, having worked with Professor Serge Renaud, PhD (Bordeaux, France), father of the "French Paradox". Based upon his research on wine and cardiovascular disease, he has recently co-authored a book on wine, health and diet, published by McGraw Hill, New York. He chairs an international think-tank on wine and health, the International Wine & Heart Health Research Initiative of the Desert Heart Foundation. He presides over a bi-annual international conference on the science of wine and health, the International Wine & Heart Health Summits.

Dr Goldfinger is an advocate for excellence in healthcare delivery, and has held administrative posts where he has been both a patient and provider advocate. He is Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and Cardiology, Universtity of Arizona School of Medicine and chief of staff, CHS Northwest Medical Center, Tucson.