Physician-in-Chief, Mount Sinai Hospital.Director, Mout Sinai Heart .General Director, National Center for Cardiovascular investigation or CNIC (equivalent to NHLBI) .  Director, The Zena and Michael A. Wiener Cardiovascular Institute.Director, Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis Center for Cardiovascular Health.Professor, Richard Gorlin, MD/Heart Research Foundation and  Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Prof. Fuster has been named Doctor Honoris Causa by thirty-three universities. He is an author on more than 1000 scientific articles and has published two leading books on clinical cardiology and research: The Heart and Atherothrombosis and Coronary Artery Disease. He has also been named Editor-in-chief of the prestigious journal Nature Reviews in Cardiology. His contributions to cardiovascular medicine have had an enormous impact on the treatment of patients with heart disease. His research into the origin of cardiovascular events, which have contributed to improved treatment of heart attack patients, was recognized in 1996 by the award of Prince of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.