Paul Alfieri, MD, FACC joined Cardiology Consultants of Philadelphia in 2020 after spending approximately 14 years owning and operating a cardiology practice with his brother in Delaware.
The youngest of seven children, Dr. Alfieri grew up in rural Western Pennsylvania, where medicine was very much a family affair. His father was one of the area’s few internal medicine physicians, while his mother managed the practice in addition to raising seven children. He first developed an affection for Southern Chester County while attending the University of Delaware in the 1990s. He subsequently earned his medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine and completed both his internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
Throughout his career, Dr. Alfieri has developed a particular interest in preventive cardiology and patient education. He believes that a physician’s job is not simply to prescribe medications or order tests, but to help patients understand their health well enough to become active participants in improving it. His approach emphasizes proven therapies, lifestyle modification, regular exercise, stress reduction, and careful consideration of the evidence behind new medications and technologies. He believes clinical trials should be critically evaluated rather than simply accepted at face value, and that good medicine requires combining the best available evidence with experience, judgment, and the individual needs and values of each patient.
Dr. Alfieri has also maintained an interest in meditation since medical school and has become increasingly interested in the relationship between chronic stress, emotional well-being, behavior, and cardiovascular health. He believes that as medicine and artificial intelligence continue to evolve, one of the physician’s most important roles will remain distinctly human: listening, teaching, interpreting increasingly complex information, and helping patients translate knowledge into meaningful changes in their lives.
One frustration throughout his career has been the limited amount of time available for this kind of teaching during a traditional office visit. What began years ago as handouts, diagrams, articles, and lengthy conversations with patients eventually grew into a much larger project.
In 2026, Dr. Alfieri published Open Your Heart: Using Ancient Wisdom, Modern Technology, and Emotional Integration. He describes the book, in part, as a “long-form patient visit”—an opportunity to explore subjects that simply cannot be adequately addressed during a typical appointment. The book began with a straightforward question he frequently encountered after recommending meditation to interested patients: “How, exactly, do I do that?” It provides a practical introduction to meditation and then expands into a broader exploration of exercise, stress, emotional health, music, expressive writing, and other approaches to helping people make meaningful changes in their lives beyond medications alone.
Outside of medicine, Dr. Alfieri spends much of his free time with his two sons. He enjoys woodworking, mountain biking, hiking, playing pool, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, flying airplanes, drumming, meditation, cooking Italian food, and traveling and exploring in his campervan.
He sees patients at three offices: West Grove, Kennett Square and West Chester.