Study Group: Interventional Cardiologists (US)(?)
Council Members in this Study Group: 439
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Leading Experts in this Study Group
Professor of Medicine
Finch University of Health Science-Chicago Medical School
Rohit Arora, MD, FACC, FAHA, FASCI, FACP, is a Professor of Medicine and Professor of Physiology and Biophysics at Chicago Medical School, Illinois. He is also the Chairman of Cardiology and Associate Chairman of Medicine in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Arora is also Chief of Cardiology at the North...
Samuel Butman, MDInterventional Cardiologist
Verde Valley Heart LLC
Samuel Butman, MD, is an Interventional Cardiologist at Verde Valley Medical Center. Dr. Butman is also a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at University Medical Center in Tucson, Arizona. He has also served as the Director of Cardiology Interventional Fellows Program and Director of Cardiac...
Director of Cardiovascular Research
Sinai Hospital of Baltimore Inc
Paul Gurbel, MD, is Director of Cardiovascular Research at the Center for Thrombosis Research at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore. Dr. Gurbel has authored over 100 peer-reviewed papers related primarily to coronary thrombosis and interventional cardiology. His particular expertise is in translational platelet...
Director of Cardiac Catheterization Lab
Wadsworth VA Medical Center
Ramin Ebrahimi, MD, is Associate Clinical Professor at the University of California in Los Angeles. He is also Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory and Assistant Director of Nuclear Cardiology at the Wadsworth VA Medical Center. Dr. Ebrahimi’s clinical and research interests focus on interventional...
Cardiologist/ Electrophysiologist
Cardiac Solutions
Jesse Sethi, MD, FACC, is a Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at Cardiac Solutions, a private practice in Arizona. Dr. Sethi has expertise in electrophysiology procedures such as pacemakers, defibrillators (ICDs), biventricular ICDs, cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), atrial and ventricular...
Division Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL - Case Medical Center
Daniel Simon, MD, is Division Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine, Director of the Heart and Vascular Institute at the University Hospitals Case Medical Center, and Herman K. Hellerstein Professor of Cardiovascular Research at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He graduated summa cum...
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