Jose Wiley is a Puerto Rican American physician-scientist, cardiologist and educator specializing in interventional cardiology. He holds the Sidney W. and Marilyn S. Lassen Chair of Cardiovascular Medicine, serves as Professor of Medicine, and is Chief of the Section of Cardiology at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana.  In addition, he serves as the Cardiovascular Service Line Chair for the LCMC Health System, overseeing the cardiovascular service lines across the LCMC network of hospitals. Gift Project for Global Cardiovascular Health. In 2014, Wiley founded the Gift Project for Global Cardiovascular Health, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation and automated external defibrillator training to schoolchildren in developing countries.