Description
Author: Lana Tsao
Publisher: Springer
Published: 03/28/2020
Pages: 267
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.88h x 5.15w x 0.74d
ISBN13: 9783030386610
ISBN10: 3030386619
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Cardiology
- Medical | Surgery | Cardiothoracic
- Medical | Radiology, Radiotherapy & Nuclear Medicine
About the Author
Lana Tsao, M.D. is the Director of St. Elizabeth's Medical Center Advanced Heart Failure Program and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. She earned her medical degree from the University of Vermont College of Medicine in Burlington, Vermont, USA and completed her Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. She trained in cardiovascular medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York before completing an Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Fellowship at New York Presbyterian Hospital of Columbia University Medical Center followed by a cardiovascular research fellowship at the Cardiovascular Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Tsao's clinical specialties include: cardiac transplantation; heart failure; valvular heart disease; and heart disease in women.
Maxwell Afari, MD is an Advanced Heart Failure, Mechanical Circulatory Support, and Transplant Cardiologist at Maine Medical Center/ Tufts University School of Medicine. He completed Medical School at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica de Sao Paulo in Brazil. After completing a translation research fellowship at the Cardiovascular Research Foundation of New York, he trained in internal medicine at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island/ Brown University School of Medicine. He pursued Cardiovascular Medicine fellowship at St Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston followed by an Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/ Harvard Medical. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular medicine, echocardiography, and nuclear cardiology. Dr. Afari's clinical and research interests are infiltrative cardiomyopathy, cardio-oncology, mechanical circulatory support, and transplant cardiology.