Dr. Andrew Freeman, MD

Dr. Andrew M. Freeman is a cardiologist in Denver, Colorado. He is Director of Clinical Cardiology and Director of Cardiovascular Prevention & Wellness at National Jewish Health, and an Associate Professor of Medicine at National Jewish Health and the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He is board certified in cardiovascular disease by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

He went to medical school at the University at Buffalo (Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences), did his internal medicine residency at Rhode Island Hospital/Brown University, and completed a cardiology fellowship at Temple University Hospital in Philadelphia. His clinical work covers general and preventive cardiology, heart failure and cardiomyopathy, diastolic dysfunction, and cardiac imaging such as echocardiography, stress testing, and cardiac CT. His research interests include cardiac sarcoid and nutrition.

He is publicly known for his work on diet and heart health. He was lead author of a widely read 2017 paper in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology on cardiovascular nutrition controversies, and he was founding chair of the American College of Cardiology's Nutrition & Lifestyle Work Group. He started and oversees an Ornish-model intensive cardiac rehabilitation program, a nine-week program run jointly by National Jewish Health and Saint Joseph Hospital, and he runs the Denver chapter of Walk with a Doc. On social media he describes himself as a plant-based cardiologist.

Federal Open Payments records for 2021-2025 list $323,984.85 in payments to him from industry across 274 records, with the largest amounts from Boehringer Ingelheim, Medtronic, Ionis Pharmaceuticals, AGEPHA Pharma, and Pfizer. Payments from drug and device companies to doctors are legal and common, and are publicly reported.