Dr. McDowell, a Middletown native, joined Middlesex Cardiology in 1983 after completing his fellowship in cardiology at Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He graduated from the College of the Holy Cross and Albany Medical College. His internship and residency were spent at Hartford Hospital. Dr. McDowell is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in Cardiovascular Disease and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. McDowell is a senior attending physician and chief of cardiology at Middlesex Hospital and is the director of the Middlesex Cardiology Echocardiography Lab. He is board certified by the National Board of Echocardiography in Transthoracic Adult Echocardiography and a member of numerous other medical societies. Dr. McDowell holds an academic appointment as assistant clinical professor at the University of Connecticut.