Continental Who's Who

Dan Fintel, MD, FACC

Dan Fintel, MD, FACC, is being recognized by Continental Who’s Who as a Pinnacle Lifetime Achiever in the field of Cardiology as a Cardiologist, Medical Scientist, and Medical Educator.

Recognized as a Top Doctor in Chicago and nationally renowned the past 10 years, Dr. Dan Fintel is an expert in Cardiology board certified in internal medicine with a focus on Nuclear Cardiac Imaging, Medicolegal consultations.

Dr. Fintel has 40 years of experience in the field of cardiology, diagnosing and treating diseases of the cardiovascular system, and critical care medicine. He has served as an associate director of medical intensive care from 1985 to 1992 and the director of the coronary care unit for 18 years. He currently serves as a senior attending in Cardiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital.

Before embarking on the path to become a cardiologist, Dr. Fintel is a Yale University graduate magna cum laude in 1975, earning a Bachelor of Science. He went on to become a Doctor of Medicine through the Health Science and Technology Program of Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduating magna cum laude in 1979. After medical school, Dr. Fintel completed both an Internship and a Residency in internal medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

Earning him a Fellowship in Cardiology at Johns Hopkins University from 1982 to 1985, Dr. Fintal remains up to date in the latest developments in cardiology with the FACC, FACP, American heart Association. In the last 10 years, As Chicago’s Top Doctor, Dr. Fintal has been widely sought after nationally and internationally as an educational lecturer in multiple areas of Cardiology and a medicolegal consultant nationally.

Treating each patient as if they were a member of his own family, Dr. Fintal continues his professional growth as an academic cardiologist involved in patient care, teaching, and research in cardiovascular diseases and treatments.

In his free time, Dr. Fintel enjoys skiing, road biking, and hiking in his free time and spending time with his wife Dr. Robin Fintel, children Bara Fintel Ovadia, MD (married to Aaron Ovadia, MD), Joshua and wife Kate Fintel, Zachary, and granddaughter Maya Slava Ovadia.

Dr. Dan Fintel dedicates his success to his mentors Dr. Richard Gorlin, Dr. Lewis Becker, Dr. Myron Weisfeld.