George Hanzel

George S. Hanzel, MD has joined Emory Healthcare and Emory University School of Medicine as an Associate Professor of Medicine. He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Cardiovascular Diseases and Interventional Cardiology.

A graduate of Georgetown University School of Medicine in Washington, D.C., Dr. Hanzel completed his internship at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, his residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and then his cardiology fellowship at the National Naval Medical Center. Dr. Hanzel then served in the United States Navy, Lieutenant Commander, as a staff cardiologist at the Great Lakes Naval Hospital from 1999 to 2002. He completed an interventional cardiology fellowship in June 2004 at Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Michigan. Dr. Hanzel then joined the Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak cardiology faculty in 2004 serving as Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory, Director of Structural Heart Disease, and associate professor at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine until 2020.

Dr. Hanzel's clinical and research interests include transcatheter aortic valve replacement, transcatheter therapies for mitral and tricuspid valve disease, alcohol septal ablation, and septal closure.

Dr. Hanzel is a member of the STS/ACC Transcatheter Valve Therapy Registry Steering Committee and the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions Structural Heart Disease Council.