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Cardiovascular Disease (Cardiology), Interventional Cardiology, Peripheral Vascular Disease
Associate with Employer in Roanoke, Virginia and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at Duke University. Former partner with Centre Medical and Surgical Associates, PC and Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. Initiated…
Critical Care & Anesthesiology
Expert is a well-respected Anesthesiologist/Anesthetist and Teacher with a strong record of clinical and research experience. He is highly skilled in modern anesthesia practices, including simple and advanced airway management through Airtraq fiber optic intubation, combitube blind insertion airway device,…
Interventional Cardiology
Expert is an internationally recognized cardiologist, inventor, educator, and author. A diplomate of the American Board of Cardiovascular Diseases and the American Board of Interventional Cardiovascular Diseases, Expert is one of the early pioneers of angioplasty and is considered one…
Physical Therapy
1969 B.S. SUNY Downstate College of Health Related Professions, 1971 M.S. Exercise Physiology Long Island University, Masters Degree Thesis: A Comparison of the Effectiveness of Eccentric Vs. Concentric Strength Training Programs on the Contractile Strength of the Elbow Flexors. 1995…
Care of Geriatric Populations in Nursing Homes, Assisted Living and in Home Care
Expert has a cummulative nursing career spanning 42 years. From 1971 to 1994 as an Intensive Care hospital based nurse. In 1992 Expert returned to school and in 1994 received an M.S.ARNP-BC. Since 1994 Expert has provided Primary Care to…
Building Vascular Networks, Vascular Tumors, Endothelial Plasticity in Heart Valves
Expert's expertise is centered on angiogenesis and endothelial cells – the cells that comprise the endothelium of blood vessels and the heart, and how these cells become disrupted in disease. Her laboratory is also investigating how to use normal healthy…
Cardiovascular and Cancer Epidemiology, Women’s Health, Diseases of Aging
Expert is a physician-epidemiologist with 25 years of experience in clinical trials and observational studies of cardiovascular disease (including coronary heart disease, hypertension, stroke and peripheral vascular disease), cancer (including breast, prostate and colon), aging, osteoporosis and dementia. He has…
Interventional Cardiology, Percutaneous Left Ventricular Assist Devices
Expert graduated from John Hopkins University School of Medicine and trained in internal medicine. He completed his fellowships in cardiology and interventionalcardiology and currently works as the Director of the Adult Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at his afiliated university. He also…
Vascular and Endovascular Surgery
Expert has performed over 500 aortic reconstructions including all procedures and conditions listed above. Mortality for elective cases (not including ruptured aneurysms) is less than 1%. Expert has performed over 2,000 interventional cath lab procedures using all procedures listed above…
Microsurgery, Reconstructive Surgery, Hand Surgery, Breast Reconstruction, Nerve Reconstruction
Expert has significant experience in all aspects of microsurgery. He has an established clinical practice in which microsurgical techniques such as nerve reconstruction, vascularized bone transplantation, replantation, toe transplantation for hand reconstruction, and soft tissue transplantation are routinely utilized for…