Raymond Yan-Kit Kwong, MD, MPH
Cardiology
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Age Groups Seen
- Adults
- Geriatrics
Languages
- Chinese - Mandarin
- English
Gender
MaleAbout Raymond Yan-Kit Kwong
Dr. Raymond Y. Kwong is the director of Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). A cardiovascular medicine specialist, he is also a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS).
Dr. Kwong received his medical degree from University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine. He completed a residency in internal medicine at Vancouver General Hospital and a fellowship in cardiovascular disease at The George Washington University Hospital. He then completed a cardiac MRI fellowship program at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institutes of Health. Dr. Kwong is board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease.
He has authored over 290 peer-reviewed publications. His clinical interests and research focus on cardiac imaging, specifically the use of cardiac MRI to assess ventricular remodeling after acute myocardial infarction. He has received multiple grants from the National Institutes of Health, American Heart Association, Canadian Institute of Health Research, and the Society for Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance for his research.
Locations
- Brigham and Women's Faulkner Hospital
- 1153 Centre Street, Cardiovascular Division, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130
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- phone: 617-983-7000
- Brigham and Women's Hospital
- 75 Francis Street, Cardiovascular Division, Boston, MA 02115
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- phone: 617-732-5500
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- 55 Fruit Street, Cardiovascular Division, Boston, MA 02114
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- phone: 617-726-2000
Expertise
Education
- Fellowship: National Heart And Lung Institute, NIH, Cardiac MRI, 2001
- Fellowship: George Washington University Hospital, Cardiovascular Disease, 2000
- Residency: Vancouver General Hospital, Internal Medicine Training - Raymond . Kwong, MD, MPH, 1997
- Internship: UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, Medicine/Surgery Internship, 1993
- Medical Education: University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, 1992
Insurance
- Aetna
- Beech Street
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Medicare
- Cigna
- Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Coventry
- Fallon Health
- Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
- Humana
- Mass General Brigham Health Plan
- MassHealth
- Medicaid CT
- Medicaid ME
- Medicaid NH
- Medicaid RI
- Medicaid VT
- Medicare
- Multiplan
- Railroad Medicare
- Senior Whole Health
- TriCare
- Tufts Health Plan
- Tufts Medicare Preferred
- United Health Care
- Wellpoint
- WellSense