Dr. Peter Pak practices consultative cardiology with emphasis on heart failure and cardiomyopathy.

After graduating from Johns Hopkins University with Honors in Biology then Harvard Medical School, he completed a medical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and a cardiology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Pak joined Pacific Heart Institute after serving two years on the Cardiomyopathy  and Cardiac Transplant Faculty as Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is the author of many articles in highly respected, peer-reviewed cardiology journals.

Dr. Pak served as Director of Critical Care at Saint John's Health Center, and he is Chair of its Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.

Having come from the east coast, Dr. Pak is glad to be living in sunny Southern California, where he can indulge in his favorite pastimes of hiking, birding, and photography. His photos were published in lifestyle magazines, and he is a winner of several photography competitions. A sampler of his photographs can be found here.