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Alabama
Huntsville Hospital Heart Failure Center, 101 Sivley Road, Huntsville, AL, 35801. Phone (256) 517-8020, Phone for CHF Clinic (256) 517-6566 or 1-888- 334-2328. No specialities listed but supposedly has a CHF Clinic
CardioVascular Associates, 2022 Medical Center Drive, Suite 510, Birmingham, AL, 35209. Phone (205) 877-9290.
Cardiology Associates
3715 Dauphin Street, Suite 4400, Mobile, AL, 36608. Phone (251) 460-0078.
CHF specialists include:
Kenneth Burnham, MD, FACC, Board Certified Cardiovascular Diseases, Board Certified Internal Medicine, Fellowship Trained in Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in Washington University School of Medicine at St. Louis, MO.
     We have an office based and two hospital-based heart failure clinics. We provide comprehensive care including meds assistance, patient education, cardiac rehab, support groups, social worker, licensed family counselor, home health and hospice referrals, device support team (ICDs, BiVentricular pacing, LVADs), and a transplant referral service.
Alaska
No doctors from this state have listed their practices here yet
Arizona
Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, 13400 East Shea Boulevard, Scottsdale, AZ. 85289. Phone (480) 301-8200. E-mail steidley.d@mayo.edu.
CHF specialists include:
D. Eric Steidley, MD. Comprehensive heart disease management in a physician and advanced practice nurse-run CHF clinic. Extensive experience with advanced heart failure including pre and post-heart transplant patients.
Arkansas
No doctors from this state have listed their practices here yet
California
Riverside Cardiology Associates, 4500 Brockton Avenue, #203, Riverside, CA, 92501. Phone (909) 686-3600. No specialities listed but includes a CHF clinic.
University of California San Diego Medical Center, Heart Failure And Cardiac Transplantation Program, 200 West Arbor Drive, San Diego, CA, 92103.
CHF specialists include:
Barry H. Greenberg MD, FACC
Denise D. Hermann MD, FACC
Success With CHF Heart Failure Program, CHF Clinic, Cardiology Division, 111C, Jerry L. Pettis VAMC, 11201 Benton Street, Loma Linda, CA, 92357. Affiliated with the Loma Linda International Heart Institute at Loma Linda University Medical Center. E-mail jth@successwithchf.com Second address is J. Thomas Heywood MD, International Heart Institute, Loma Linda University Medical Center, 11234 Anderson Street, Loma Linda, CA, 92354.
University of California San Francisco Medical Center, 505 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0296. Phone (415) 476-1000. Outpatient clinics are located at 400 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94143-0296.
CHF specialists include:
Teresa Demarco, MD, Phone (415) 476-2873
Kanu Chatterjee, MD, Phone (415) 476-1326
Stanford University Medical Center, Advanced Therapies for Heart Failure and Pre-Transplant Evaluation and Management, 300 Pasteur Drive, Stanford, California. Phone (650) 723-6457
CHF specialists include:
Michael Fowler MD, Phone (650) 723-5468
Sharon Hunt MD, Phone (650) 723-6459
Mark G. Perlroth MD, Phone (650) 723-6459
John S. Schroeder MD, Phone (650) 723-6459
Randall Vagelos MD, Phone (650) 723-6406
Hannah Valentine MD, Phone (650) 723-5468.
Mission Internal Medical Group, 26732 Crown Valley Parkway, Suite 161, Mission Viejo, CA, 92691. Phone (949) 364-6000.
CHF specialists include (6 or more at this practice):
Michael Miyamoto, MD, FACC, American Board of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease Diplomate, Certification Board of Nuclear Cardiology Member, Heart Failure Society of America Member, International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation member
University of California, Davis Medical Center, 4860 Y Street #0200, Sacramento, CA, 95817. Phone (916) 734-3761. E-mail miriam.blankenbiller@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu.
CHF specialists include:
William R. Lewis, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Board Certified cardiologist, Director of Exercise Testing Laboratory, Director of Echocardiography Laboratory, Director of Cardiovascular Clinical Research Unit. Also involved in Heart Transplantation program at UCSF.
San Diego Cardiac Center, 3131 Berger Street, San Diego, CA, 92123. Phone (858) 244-6800
CHF specialists include:
Brian E. Jaski, MD, FACC, Medical Director of Heart Transplant Program at Sharp Memorial Hospital
Laurence K. Favrot, MD, FACC
Ronald H. Miller, MD, FACC, FACP
Peter M. Hoagland, MD, FACC, FACP, and Transplant Cardiologist
John B. Gordon III, MD, FACC,and Transplant Cardiologist
David G. Marsh, MD, FACC
Gregory B. Mahan, MD, FACC, FACP
Charles A. Athill, MD, FACC
Sue Harte, RN, MS, Certified Nurse Practioner for CHF Clinic
Dr. Ashok K. Verma, 440 N. Greenfield, Hanford, CA, 93230. Phone (559) 584-2771
CHF specialists include:
Ashok K. Verma, MD, FACC
Pacific Heart Associates, 845 S. Fairmont #11, Lodi, CA, 95240 and 420 W. Acacia St. #18, Stockton, CA, 95203. Phone (209) 464-3615, E-mail gma_phamg@yahoo.com
Contact Gabull Abdullah, RN, ACNP; acute care Nurse Practitioner specializing in CHF, collaborating with 2 board certified interventional cardiologists.
Dr. Meldon Levy, 2080 Century Park East, Suite 704, Los Angeles, CA, 90067. Phone (310) 277-9126. E-mail meldonlevy@aol.com.
CHF specialists include:
Meldon Levy, MD, FACC. Dr. Levy has access to non-invasive hemodynamic monitoring for heart failure patients in the office.
University of California at Los Angeles, Ahmanson Cardiomyopathy Center, Division of Cardiology, 10833 Le Conte Avenue, Room 47-123 CHS, Los Angeles, CA, 90095-1679. Phone (310) 825-8816.
CHF specialists include:
Michele Hamilton, MD, FACC. Ms. Hamilton is Assistant Director of the Clinical Heart Failure program.
Los Angeles Heart Specialists, 16661 Ventura Blvd, Suite 820, Encino, CA, 91436 and 1255 South Beverly Drive, Suite 611, Los Angeles, CA, 90035. Phone (818) 905-6110 and (310) 553-8555
CHF specialists include:
Afshine Ashe Emrani, MD, Diplomat, American Board of Internal Medicine; and Diplomat, American Board of Cardiovascular Diseases.
Cardiovascular Medical Group, 8635 W. Third Street, Suite 1190-W, Los Angeles, CA, 90048. Phone 310-652-4600
CHF specialists include:
Steven Khan, MD, FACC, Board Certified Internal Medicine, Board Certified Cardiology, Director of the Heart Failure Program at Cedars-Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles from 2001 to 2003, Associate Professor at UCLA School of Medicine, Clinical Chief of Division of Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Director of Cardiology Clinical Trials at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Khan was a principle investigator in numerous heart failure clinical trials including ACORN, AHeft, Fusion II, ValHeFT, REVIVE, COMPANION, INSYNC-ICD, and MOMENTUM. If you are interested in participating in heart failure clinical trials, please contact Dr. Khan's senior research coordinator, Linn, at 310-423-6034.
Colorado
Aurora Denver Cardiology Associates, 1601 E. 19th Avenue, Suite 5000, Denver, CO, 80218. Phone 303-839-7100.
CHF specialists include:
Thomas S. Crisman, MD, PhD, Board Certified Internal Medicine 1993, Cardovascular Disease 1999.
Connecticut
Yale School of Medicine Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Clinic, 135 College Street, Suite 301, New Haven, CT, 06510. Phone (203)785-7191 Fax (203)785-2917
CHF specialists include:
Stuart D. Katz, MD
Forrester A. Lee, MD
Daniel R. Goldstein, MD
Detlef Wencker MD, MD
Hartford Hospital, Congestive Heart Failure Treatment Center, 80 Seymour Street, Hartford, CT, 06102. Phone (860) 545-1212. Includes an outpatient CHF clinic.
CHF specialists include:
Lawrence M. Pareles, MD, FACC
Mark R. Weisburst, MD, FACC, FACP
Delaware
No doctors from this state have listed their practices here yet
Florida
Cardiovascular Associates of South Florida, 4685 Ponce De Leon Boulevard, Coral Gables, FL, 33146. Phone (305) 661-2534.
CHF specialists include:
Dean H. Roller, MD, FACC, Board Certified Internal Medicine, Board Certified Cardiosvascular Diseases, Fellow of the Clinical Council of the American Heart Association, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) Univeristy of Miami
The Broward Heart Group, 7421 North University Drive, Suite 101, Tamarac, FL, 33321. Phone (954) 721-6666.
CHF specialists include:
Ricky M. Schneider, MD, FACC, FACP, Board Certified Cardiovascular Diseases, Assisting Consulting Professor of Medicine at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC; Courtesy Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL; Assistant Clinical Professor of Cardiology at Nova Southeastern University of the Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine, North Miami Beach, FL; Board of Directors at Duke University Cooperative Cardiovascular Studies, Durham, NC (Treasurer)
Georgia
Dr. Andrew B. Chung, St. James Medical Center, 5701 Mableton Parkway, Suite 2B, Mableton, GA, 30126. Phone (404) 699-2780. E-mail cardiologist2@heartmdphd.com.
CHF specialists include:
Andrew Chung, MD, PhD
Atlanta Cardiology Group, P.C., 5665 Peachtree Dunwoody Road, Suite 172, Atlanta, GA, 30342. Phone (404) 851-5400. E-mail srubin@acgmd.com.
CHF specialists include:
Nirav Y. Raval, MD, board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease by the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) and Nuclear Cardiology by the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC). He completed his Internal Medicine and Residency programs at Barnes Hospital/Washington University in St. Louis, MO. At Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, he completed several fellowships: Cardiovascular Disease and Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation. Dr. Raval specializes in advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation, including post-operative management of cardiac transplantation and LVAD implantation. His practice includes use of BiV pacemakers.
Victor E. Corrigan, MD, board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Interventional Cardiology and is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Corrigan is the medical director of the Heart Transplant Team and the director of the Coronary Care Unit at Saint Joseph's Hospital of Atlanta. Dr. Corrigan recently completed a three-year term as Governor of the Georgia chapter of the American College of Cardiology.
Hawaii
No doctors from this state have listed their practices here yet
Idaho
No doctors from this state have listed their practices here yet
Illinois
 Heart Failure Institute, 4440 West 95th Street, Suite 428 South, Oak Lawn, IL, 60453. Phone (708) 346-4239
CHF specialists include:
Marc A. Silver, MD; Fellow American Colleges of Physicians, Cardiology and Chest Physicians; founding member Heart Failure Society of America; Co-Editor in Chief of "Congestive Heart Failure"; Author of "Success with Heart Failure"
     My practice is limited to Heart Failure only. Read the book and read The Manual!
Midwest Heart Specialists
Physicians Office Building, Good Samaritan Hospital, Congestive Heart Failure Center, 3825 Highland Avenue, Tower 2, Suite 400, Downers Grove, IL, 60515. Phone (630) 719-4799
429 North York Road, Elmhurst, IL, 60126. Phone (630) 782-4050
Edward Cardiovascular Institute, 120 Spalding Drive, Suite 206, Naperville, IL, 60540. Phone (630) 527-2730
25 North Winfield Road, North Entrance, Winfield, IL, 60190. Phone (630) 510-9244
CHF specialists include:
Manfred J. Pyka, MD
Andrew Rauh, MD, FACC
Jordan Weinstein, MD
Michael D. Brottman, MD
MidAmerica Cardiovascular Consultants, 4400 West 95th Street, Suite 409, Oak Lawn, IL, 60453. Phone (708) 636-7575
CHF specialists include:
Cheryl L. Brody, DO
Muhyaldeen Dia, MD. Phone (708) 346-4062
Masood A. Qazi, MD, FACC. Phone (708) 636-7575
Dinker A. Trivedi, MD. Phone (708) 799-8700
Allan B. Zelinger, MD. Phone (708) 799-8700
Cardiovascular Consultants, 2850 West 95th Street, Suite 301, Evergreen Park, IL, 60805. Phone (708) 425-7272
CHF specialists include:
Evans P. Pappas, MD
Advocate Medical Group, 6000 West Touhy Avenue, Chicago, IL, 60646. Phone (773) 594-1900, (847) 698-3600
CHF specialists include:
Leslie Anne Brookfield, MD
Sharada Chaitra, MD
Heart Care Centers of Illinois, 3611 West 183rd Street, Hazel Crest, IL, 60429. Phone (708) 799-5900, (708) 478-4224
CHF specialists include:
George C. Gustafson, MD
South Suburban Heart Group, 17850 South Kedzie Avenue, Suite 3100, Hazel Crest, IL, 60429. Phone (708) 799-8700, (708) 346-5557, (708) 636-7575
CHF specialists include:
Ajay H. Parikh, MD, FACC
Gautam Patel, MD
Rajesh Sehgal, MD
Parkside Center, 1875 Dempster, Suite 601, Park Ridge, IL, 60068. Phone (847) 696-1200
CHF specialists include:
Thomas Pavlovic, MD
William Suhr, MD, 1100 West Central Road, Suite 302, Arlington Heights, IL, 60005. Phone (847) 870-8030
Prairie Cardiovascular Consultants - the Heart Failure Program at Prairie Heart Institute, 619 East Mason, Springfield, Illinois, 62701. Phone (217) 788-0706. E-mail SJenniso@prairieheart.com
CHF specialists include:
Stephen Jennison, MD
Indiana
The Care Group LLC, 8333 Naab Road, Suite 400, Indianapolis, IN, 46260. Phone (317) 338-5050. E-mail sbrown@thecaregroup.com
CHF specialists include:
Mary Norine Walsh, MD, FACC. We are a comprehensive, multidisciplinary heart failure clinic
Iowa
Mercy Hospital Medical Center, Iowa Heart Center, Congestive Heart Failure Clinic, 411 Laurel Street, Suite 1250, Des Moines, IA, 50314-3046. Phone (515) 288-8573.
CHF specialists include:
Marc L. Klein, MD
William J. Wickemeyer, MD
University of Iowa Heart Failure Treatment Program, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, 200 Hawkins Drive, Iowa City, IA, 52245. Phone (319) 356-1028.
CHF specialists include:
Barry Cabuay, MD, Internal Medicine
John Chase, MD, Internal Medicine
Ron Oren, MD, Internal Medicine
Mercy Iowa City and Iowa City Heart Center, 540 East Jefferson Street, Suite 303, Iowa City, IA, 52245. Phone (319) 339-3886. E-mail ron.oren@mercyic.org
CHF specialists include:
Ron Oren, no credentials listed.
Kansas
Mid-America Cardiology
University of Kansas Medical Center, 3901 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS. 66160-7200 Phone (913) 588-9600
20375 W. 151st Street, Olathe, KS. Phone (913) 780-1144
12330 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park, KS. Phone (913) 317-7990
1301 So. Main, Ottawa, KS. Phone (785) 229-8200
501 S. Hospital Drive, Paola, KS. Phone (913) 294-2327
217 M Street, Atchison, KS. Phone (913) 367-3693
CHF specialists include:
Charles Porter, MD
Randall Genton, MD
Kentucky
No doctors from this state have listed their practices here yet
Louisiana
Ochsner Heart Failure Program, 1514 Jefferson Highway, New Orleans, LA, 70121. Phone (504) 842-5630.
CHF specialists include:
Mandeep R. Mehra, MD, FACC, FACP, FCCP
Maine
No doctors from this state have listed their practices here yet
Maryland
Good Samaritan Hospital, 5601 Loch Raven Boulevard, Baltimore, MD, 21239. Phone (410) 532-5969. E-mail leapsalmon@hotmail.com.
CHF specialists include:
Duncan Salmon, MD, Board Certified, Cardiovascular Diseases Director, Heart Failure Services, Good Samaritan Hospital.
Massachusetts
No doctors from this state have listed their practices here yet
Michigan
University of Michigan, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, 1500 East Medical Center Drive, 3910 TC, Box 0366, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109-0273. Phone (734) 647-7322
CHF specialists include:
Keith Aaronson, MD, Phone (734) 764-7440, E-mail keith@umich.edu
Robert Cody, MD, Phone (734) 936-5255, E-mail rcody@umich.edu
Sunil K. Das, MD, Phone (734) 936-5260, E-mail sdas@umich.edu
Bradley P. Knight, MD, Phone (734) 936-5840, E-mail bpk@umich.edu
Todd M Koelling, MD, Phone (734) 936-5265, CHF nurse (734) 936-9563, E-mail tkoellin@umich.edu
Bertram Pitt, MD, Phone (734) 936-5260, E-mail bpitt@umich.edu
Mark R. Starling, MD, Phone (734)-761-7978, E-mail mrstar@umich.edu
West Michigan Heart, 2900 Bradford, Grand Rapids, MI, 49525. Phone (800) 466-4846. E-mail mdickinson@wmheart.com
CHF specialists include:
Michael G. Dickinson, MD. Dr. Dickinson also sees CHFers in the Spectrum Health Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Medicine clinic.
Cardiology and Arrhythmia Consultants PC, 2710 South Rochester Road, Rochester Hills, MI, 48307 and 909 West Maple, Suite 100, Clawson, MI, 48017. Phone (248) 853-7600.
CHF specialists include:
Anil K. Goel, MD. FACC, American Board certified in Cardiology and Clinical cardiac electrophysiology.
Ours is a cardiology practice with focus on patient convenience, education, and personal care. We treat our patients like family. Practice focus is on heart failure and cardiac arrhythmias including implantable devices.
Minnesota
Central Minnesota Heart Center, 1406 6th Avenue North, St. Cloud, MN, 56303. Phone (320) 255-5706. E-mail sukhump@centracare.com
CHF specialists include:
Pradub Sukhum, MD, FACC.
Mississippi
No doctors from this state have listed their practices here yet
Missouri
Mid-America Cardiology
3532 Glenn Hendren Drive, Liberty, MO. Phone (816) 781-1696
9411 N. Oak Trafficway, Kansas City, MO. Phone (816) 436-3680
1800 E. Mechanic, Harrisonville, MO. Phone 380-3474
CHF specialists include:
Charles Porter, MD
Randall Genton, MD
St. Luke's Heart Failure Center, St. Luke's Hospital, 32 South Woods Mill Road, Chesterfield, MO, 63017. Phone (314) 205-6671. E-mail maged.haikal@stlukes-stl.com.
CHF specialists include:
Maged Haikal, MD, FACC, FCCP.
Montana
No doctors from this state have listed their practices here yet
Nebraska
Bryan LGH Medical Center, Nebraska Heart Institute, 1500 South 48th Street, Lincoln, Nebraska, 68506. Phone (402) 483-8713.
CHF specialists include:
Rebecca Rundlett, MD.
BryanLGH Heart Institute, 120 Wedgewood Drive, Suite B, Lincoln, NE, 68510. Phone (402) 483-3371. E-mail pat@bhi-1.com.
CHF specialists include:
Steve Krueger, MD, FACC, board certified in cardiology; Director of BryanLGH Heart Improvement Program, a heart failure clinic serving over 500 patients with chronic heart failure. Involved in various clinical trials for heart failure patients.
BryanLGH Heart Institute, 1600 S. 48th St., Lincoln, NE, 68506. Phone (402) 483-3333. E-mail info@bhi-1.com.
CHF specialists include:
Keith Miller, MD, board certified in cardiology.
The Cardiac Center of Creighton University Medical Center, 3006 Webster Street, Omaha, NE, 68131. Phone (402) 280-4566. E-mail tami.ward@cardiac.creighton.edu.
CHF specialists include:
Claire B. Hunter, MD, FACC, Board Certified in Cardiovascular Diseases, Assistant Professor of Medicine at Creighton University School of Medicine.
The Heart Improvement Therapy (HIT) Clinic began in 1997. Tami Ward, MS, APRN-C, is the nurse practitioner who works with Dr. Hunter to care for heart failure patients. HIT patients receive intensive education. This education includes the importance of daily monitoring of weight, nutrition, exercise, medications, and much more. The HIT team also consists of an RN dedicated to HIT patients, a social worker, a registered dietician, and a psychiatrist. Other available services include clinical trials and heart failure device management. Care is collaborative and individualized. We have a very low re-hospitalization rate.
Nevada
No doctors from this state have listed their practices here yet
New Hampshire
No doctors from this state have listed their practices here yet
New Jersey
Heart-Lung Associates of America PC, Heart-Lung Center, 297 Lafayette Avenue, Hawthorne, NJ, 07506. Phone (973) 423-9388.
CHF specialists include:
John E. Strobeck, MD, PhD, Board Certified in Cardiology, Board Certified in Nuclear Cardiology, Fellow of American College of Cardiology, Co-Editor of Congestive Heart Failure, Executive Council of Heart Failure Society of America.
     We have a comprehensive outpatient program for evaluation, patient education, and management of CHF; this includes drug therapy, impedance cardiography, pacemakers/ICDs, EECP, IV therapy with Natrecor, and venous-venous ultrafiltration. We are associated with pulmonologists, endocrinologists, nephrologists, neurologists, and vascular surgeons to provide a "one-stop shop" for the CHF patient.
Medicor Cardiology, 225 Jackson St., Bridgewater, NJ, 08807. Phone (908) 526-8668.
CHF specialists include:
Steven Georgeson, MD, FACC, FACP.
     Our services include EECP, a CHF clinic, and outpatient Natrecor infusion.
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 125 Paterson Street, New Brunswick, NJ, 08903. Phone (732) 235-8264. E-mail freuders@umdnj.edu.
CHF specialists include:
Ronald Freudenberger, MD, FACC, Board Certified Cardiovascular Diseases, Director Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology Program, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (previously Director of Cardiac Transplantation at University of Maryland School of Medicine).
     Our services include comprehensive heart failure and heart transplant program, with advanced heart failure treatment including left ventricular assist devices and clinical trial participation.
Penn Cardiology, Penn Cardiology in Cherry Hill, 1400 E Route 70, Cherry Hill, NJ, 08034. Phone (856) 216 0300.
CHF specialists include:
Brian Drachman, MD, FACC.
Morristown Memorial Hospital, 100 Madison Avenue, Morristown, NJ, 07962. Phone (973) 971-5597. E-mail frank.smart@ahsys.org
CHF specialists include:
Frank Smart, MD, FACC, FACP, Board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases.
Dr. Smart has over 15 years experience as a heart failure, heart transplant and mechanical circulatory support specialist. He has published over 120 articles on heart failure and transplant. Dr. Smart relocated this year from The Texas Heart Institute as Director of Heart failure and Heart Transplant to this position as Chief of Cardiology.
New Mexico
No doctors from this state have listed their practices here yet
New York
Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College, 109 Macy Pavilion, Valhalla, NY, 10595. Phone (914) 493-7632. Fax (914) 493-1854.
CHF specialists include:
Warren D. Rosenblum, MD, Director of Heart Failure and Transplantation
Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathy Center, University Hospital at Stony Brook Stonybrook, 3001 Expressway Drive North, Suite 200 B, Islandia, NY, 11749. Phone (631) 444-9600. Fax (631) 444-9621.
CHF specialists include:
Hal Skopicki, MD, PhD, FACC.
Our practice is a comprehensive multidisciplinary team of physicians and nurses who specialize in heart failure. Care includes optimization of medical therapy, surgical interventions including evaluations for devices, heart transplantation and left ventricular assist devices, and clinical trial participation. Focus is on care to improve quality of life, to educate patients and their family, and personalized follow-up.
St. Francis Hospital Heart Failure Program, 100 Port Washington Blvd., Roslyn, New York 11576; also 55 Valentine Lane, Old Brookville, New York. Phone (516) 629-2090.
CHF specialists include:
Justine Lachmann, MD, Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiology.
Comprehensive program including Internet scale monitoring, intermittant outpatient Natrecor infusions, research trials, nutrition and exercise recommendations.
St. Luke's-Roosevelt Heart Failure Program, 425 West 59th Street, Suite 9D, New York, NY 10019. Phone (212) 523-8274. E-mail tblanchette@chpnet.org
CHF specialists include:
Marrick Kukin, MD, FACC, Director Heart Failure Program, Board Certified by the American Board Of Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease.
Our services include medical and surgical treatments as well as trials of medications and devices, heart transplant evaluations, patient education to improve quality of life, nutritional programs, exercise programs, and counseling to assist with life style changes.
North Carolina
Carolina Cardiology Associates
624 Quaker Lane, Building E, Suite 200, High Point, NC. Phone (336) 885-6168
208-A Foust Street, Asheboro, NC. Phone (336) 625-1774
107 W. Medical Park Drive, Suite 102, Lexington, NC. Phone (336) 248-4864
1219 Lexington Avenue, Suite C, Thomasville, NC. Phone (336) 475-5337
CHF specialists include:
Niuton S. Koide, MD
Brian J. Munley, MD, FACC, FCCP
A. Landon Wellford, MD, FACC
Duke Heart Failure Disease Management Program, Duke University Medical Center, Erwin Road, DUMC Box 3943, Durham, NC, 27710. Phone (919) 684-1932.
CHF specialists include:
Christopher O'Connor, MD; FACC
Stuart Russell, MD
Michael Blazing, MD
Michael Cuffe, MD
Ruth Ann Greenfield, MD
Michael Higginbotham, MD
Eric Velazquez, MD
Our multidisciplinary team also includes 3 nurse practitioners who specialize in heart failure, a registered nurse who provides patient education and follow-up, and 2 clinical pharmacists who specialize in CHF meds. These professionals work with each other to design personalized care plans for each patient's unique needs.
Wake Heart Associates, 300 Ashville Avenue, Suite 301, Cary, NC, 27511. Phone (919) 851-6901.
Sam Mobarek, MD, FACC, is not a CHF specialist but does treat CHFers. He has additional training in electrophysiology and echocardiography and is especially interested in management of heart failure patients.
Alamance Regional Medical Center CHF Clinic, 1238 Huffman Mill Road, Room 127, Burlington, NC, 27215. Phone (336) 538-7482. E-mail chfclinic@armc.com.
CHF specialists include:
Kenneth Fath, MD, FACC.
We have a nurse practitioner who assists with seeing patients who have CHF - cooperating with the patient's cardiologist and PCP.
Heart Failure Program, Forsyth Medical Center, 3333 Silas Creek Blvd., Winston Salem, NC, 27103. Phone (336) 718-6199.
CHF specialists include:
David L. Smull, DO
Our center does offer home inotrope infusion, EECP, and a heart failure support group.
UNC Hospitals Heart Center at Meadowmont, Meadowmont Village Circle, Suite 313, Chapel Hill, NC. 27517. Phone (919) 966-7244. CHFspecialists include:
Patricia Chang, MD, MHS, FACC. Dr. Chang is one of three heart failure specialists at this clinic. She is also Director of the Cardiomyopathy and Transplant Service at UNC Chapel Hill.
Kirkwood Adams, MD, Diplomate American Board of Internal Medicine 1979, Diplomate American Board of Cardiovascular Diseases 1985; Adams is Director of UNC Chapel Hill's Heart Failure Program
Carla Sueta Dupree, MD, PhD, FACC, Diplomate American Board of Cardiovascular Diseases 1991, Recertified 2001; Diplomate American Board of Internal Medicine 1989, Recertified 2001.
North Dakota
No doctors from this state have listed their practices here yet
Ohio
Cleveland Clinic Heart Center, Kaufman Center for Heart Failure, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH., 44195 Phone 216/444-2200 or 1-800-223-2273
CHF specialists include:
James B. Young, MD, FAAC, ACCP, Phone (216) 444-2270. Dr. Young is head of the Section of Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Medicine, and medical director of the Kaufman Center for Heart Failure at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. He is Board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease, and is on the Council on Clinical Cardiology for the American Heart Association. He serves on the editorial board or editorial staff of 13 scientific journals and web sites, including the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
Patrick M. McCarthy, MD, Phone (216) 444-0648. Dr. McCarthy is Surgical Director of the Kaufman Center for Heart Failure, Program Director of Cardiac Transplantation, and Director of the Mechanical Circulatory Support Program at The Cleveland Clinic Foundation; The Kaufman Center for Heart Failure is a philanthropic institute at the Cleveland Clinic for the investigation and treatment of heart failure from prevention through the use of the newest modalities, including artificial heart technologies and break-through surgical approaches. Most of my career is focused on finding alternative solutions to heart failure, other than transplantation."
Randall C. Starling, MD, MPH, Phone (216) 444-2268. Dr. Starling is Medical Director of the Heart Transplant program at the Cleveland Clinic.
Bruce Wilkoff, MD, Phone (216) 444-4975. Dr. Wilkoff is an electrophysiologist skilled in the use of a new therapy called biventricular pacing for heart failure.
Nicholas C. Smedira, MD, Phone (216) 445-7052. Dr. Smedira is a cardiac surgeon with special skills in treatment of CHF patients, including transplant, LVADs, and surgical alternatives such as cardiomyoplasty.
University Hospitals of Cleveland, Heart Failure/Transplant Clinic, 11100 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH., 44106. Phone (216) 844-2500.
CHF specialists include:
Ileana Pina, MD, Board Certified Internal Medicine, Board Certified Cardiovascular Diseases, member of the Executive Council of the Heart Failure Society of America
Ohio Heart Health Center, 2123 Auburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH., 45219. Phone (513) 721-8881. E-mail menons@ohioheart.org.
CHF specialists include:
Santosh G. Menon, MD, MBBS, FACC, Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease.
Ohio Heart Health Center, 2123 Auburn Avenue, Cincinnati, OH., 45219. Phone (513) 541-0700. E-mail chunge@ohioheart.org.
CHF specialists include:
Eugene S. Chung, MD, Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease.
University of Cincinnati Heart Center, University of Cincinnati Division of Cardiology, 231 Albert B. Sabin Way, Cincinnati, OH., 45267-0542. Phone (513) 584-7217; (513) 558-3487; (513) 475-7465.
CHF specialists include:
Lynne E. Wagoner, MD., Associate Professor of Medicine, Medical Director of Heart Failure and Transplant Program, Director of Cardiology Fellowship Program, Director of Cardiac Services
Oklahoma
No doctors from this state have listed their practices here yet
Oregon
Pacific Heart Associates, 9155 SW Barnes Road, Suite 233, Portland OR, 97225. Phone (503)297-6234
1510 Division Street, Suite 170, Oregon City, OR, 97045. Phone (503) 655-7449
CHF specialists include:
Kathy Thigpen, MD
Heart Clinic of Southern Oregon, Medford, OR. Phone (541) 734-3490. E-mail heart@the-heartclinic.com
CHF specialists include:
Dr. Mark Huth, MD-PhD, FACC
Oregon Heart and Vascular Institute, Heart Failure Center, 677 E. 12th Avenue, Eugene OR, 97440. Phone (541) 335-2789. E-mail swebber@ohvi.org
CHF specialists include:
Jerold Hawn, MD
Pennsylvania
University Of Pennsylvania Medical Center, The Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Program, 6 Penn Tower, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19104. Phone 1-800-789-4366.
CHF specialists include:
Susan C. Brozena, MD, FACC
Lee R. Goldberg, MD
Mariel Jessup, MD
Andrew Kao, MD, FACC
Cardiology Associates of West Reading, 301 S. 7th Avenue, DOB 2020, West Reading, PA, 19611. Phone (610) 375-6565. E-mail rjalvarezjr@comcast.net.
CHF specialists include:
Rene J Alvarez Jr., MD, FACC, Board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases, also UNOS certified as a Heart/Lung transplant physician. Dr. Alvarez is Director the heart failure clinic here.
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, 200 Lothrop Street, Suite C-700, Pittsburgh, PA, 15213. Phone (412) 648-6259. E-mail patelan@upmc.edu.
CHF specialists include:
Amit N. Patel, MD, MS, Medical schooling at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio with residencies at Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Patel is Director of the Center for Cardiac Cell Therapy at UPMC. He is focusing on directly injecting autologous (adult) stem cells into damaged heart tissue to help repair it.
Penn-Presbyterian Medical Center, 38th and Market Streets, Philadelphia, PA, 19104. Phone (215) 662-9000.
CHF specialists include:
Brian Drachman, MD, FACC.
Rhode Island
Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, Cardiology Division, 111 Brewster Street, Pawtucket, RI, 02860. Phone (401) 729-2262 Fax (401) 729-3050
No specialties listed but includes a CHF clinic.
South Carolina
Practice: Spartanburg Regional Healthcare System, Regional Heart Center, 101 East Wood Street, Spartanburg, SC, 29303. Phone (864) 560-8000 E-mail gwhiteak@srhs.com
No specialties listed but includes a CHF clinic
South Dakota
No doctors from this state have listed their practices here yet
Tennessee
East Tennessee Heart Consultants, 9330 Park West Blvd, Suite 202, Knoxville, TN 37923. Phone (865) 691-4850 Fax (865) 694-8018
Robert P. Martyn, MD: treats 60 CHF patients monthly
ETHC Heart Failure Clinic, 9314 Parkwest Blvd, Suite 100, Knoxville, TN 37923. Phone (865) 251-5588 E-mail information@ethc.com
CHF specialists include:
Lee Jordan, MD, FACC, FACP, Heart Failure Society of Amercia, Tennessee Medical Association, Association of Army Cardiologists, board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease.
The ETHC Heart Failure Clinic takes a proactive, comprehensive approach to caring for patients. Because each patient has different needs, our team members work closely with each patient to offer customized care and support.
Advanced Heart Failure Clinic, St. Thomas Hospital, 4220 Harding Road, Nashville, TN, 37205. Phone (615) 222-3945 or 1 (800) 373-0218. CHF specialists include:
Mark Wigger, MD Phone (615) 222-6618
Douglas Pearce, MD Phone 1 (800) 345-5016 or (615) 269-4545
Allen Naftilan, MD Phone (615) 297-2700
The Chattanooga Heart Institute, 2501 Citico Avenue, Chattanooga, TN, 37404. Phone (423) 697-2000.
CHF specialists include:
William F. Oellerich, MD, PhD, Board certified in Internal Medicine, Board certified in Cardiology, certified in echocardiography, certified in nuclear cardiology.
Vanderbilt Page Campbell Heart Institute-Heart Failure Program, 2311 Pierce Avenue, Room 2218, Nashville, TN, 37232-8802. Phone (615) 343-3735.
CHF specialists include:
Javed Butler, MD, FACC
Thomas DiSalvo, MD, FACC
John R. Wilson, MD, FACC
Marvin Kronenberg, MD, FACC
Melissa Smith, MSN, APRN-BC
Services include a heart transplant program, and an LVAD program
Parkway Cardiology Associates, 80 Vermont Avenue, Oak Ridge, TN, 37830. Phone (865) 482-4078. E-mail vwmcl@comcast.net.
CHF specialists include:
Victor W. McLaughlin, MD, Medical Director of Heart Failure Program at Methodist Medical Center.
Cardiovascular Care Center, PLLC, 1614 Gunbarrel Road, Chattanooga, TN, 37421. Phone (423) 553-7600.
CHF specialists include:
T. David Gbadebo, MD, FACC
Cardiovascular Care Center is a full-spectrum cardiology practice with all board-certified specialists using heart and vascular treatments, electrophysiology, and non-invasive new treatments for heart failure.
Texas
St. Paul Medical Center, Cardiovascular Institute, 5939 Harry Hines Boulevard, Suite 603, Dallas, TX, 75235. Phone (214) 879-2273 or 1-800-432-8192 Fax (214) 879-7925; Doctor Directory Phone (214) 879-3099 or 1-888-778-7285. E-mail bthomp@swmcdallas.org.
CHF specialists include:
Micheal Solomon, MD
Mark Drazner, MD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Cardiovascular Institute, 5323 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, TX, 75390. Phone (214) 648-3111. Appointments made by calling the Division of Cardiology in the James W. Aston Ambulatory Care Center, Phone (214) 648-6300.
CHF specialists include:
Mark H. Drazner, MD
Eric J. Eichhorn, MD
Daniel J. Garry, MD, PhD
John D. Rutherford, MD (heart disease in pregnancy)
Clyde W. Yancy, MD
Baylor Medical Center, Irving Congestive Heart Clinic, 1901 North MacArthur Boulevard, Irving, TX, 75061. Phone (972) 579-4200.
CHF specialist is:
Michael Rothkopf, MD
St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Texas Heart Institute, 1101 Bates Avenue, Houston, TX, 77030. Phone (713) 791-4011. E-mail chf@sleh.com
CHF specialists include:
Reynolds M. Delgado, MD, 6624 Fannin, Suite 2420, Houston, TX, 77030. Phone (713) 383-9300
Sayed F. Feghali, MD, 6624 Fannin, Suite 1720, Houston, TX, 77030. Phone (713) 797-0200
Edward T Yeh, MD - U.T. Health Science Center - 6431 Fannin, Suite 4.200, Houston, TX, 77030. Phone (713) 500-6660
Valentina Ugolini, MD - Cy-Fair Cardiology Consultants - 6560 Fannin, Suite 620, Houston, TX, 77030. Phone (281) 890-4848
Anton P. Nielsen, MD - Cy-Fair Cardiology Consultants - 11301 Fallbrook Drive, Suite 200, Houston, TX, 77065. Phone (281) 890-4848
Edward K. Massin, MD - Cardiology Consultants Of Houston - 6624 Fannin, Suite 2310, Houston, TX, 77030. Phone (713) 796-2668
Robert J. Hall, MD - Hall/Garcia Cardiology Associates - 6624 Fannin, Suite 2480, Houston, TX, 77030. Phone (713) 791-4135 or (713) 529-5530
South Texas Cardiovascular Consultants, 4330 Medical Drive, Suite 500, San Antonio, TX, 78209. Phone (210) 692-1414.
Austin Heart PA, 3801 North Lamar, Suite 300, Austin, TX, 78756. Phone (512) 206-3676. E-mail cwindstein@austinheart.com
CHF specialists include:
David Morris, MD - Board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular medicine
Central Cardiovascular Institute of San Antonio LLC, 6800 IG 10 West, Suite 200, San Antonio, TX, 78201. Phone (210) 271-3203.
CHF specialists include:
Manuel M. Garcia, MD, FACC, ABIM board certified in internal medicine and cardiology, Medical director of Heart Failure Program. Dr. Garcia is an invasive cardiologist with focus on heart failure management and evaluation for heart transplant
Sonja D. Brune, RN, MSN, CCRN, CCNS, Board certified as a Clinical Nurse Specialist in acute and critical care nursing. Sonja is an advanced practice nurse with more than 16 years experience in cardiovascular and critical care nursing. She specializes in heart failure management and assists in evaluation for heart transplant.
Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center Heart Failure Clinic, 3000 Herring, Waco, TX, 76708. Phone (254) 202-8025. E-mail plea@hillcrest.net
Heart Failure Clinic, Cardiology Department, Medical Center of Plano, 3901 West 15th Street, Plano, TX, 75075-7738. Phone (972) 519-1345. E-mail Phyllis.Czarnecki@lonestarhealth.com
Our CHF Clinic specializes in heart failure management and education. The clinic also offers intermittent infusion therapy.
CHF specialists include:
David Rawitscher, MD, FACC, Diplomat with American Board of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease
Marc Shalek, MD
CSANT Cardiology - Grapevine, 1643 Lancaster Drive, Clearview Building, Suite 203, Grapevine, TX, 76051. Phone (817) 329-7670. E-mail josborne@csant.com
We also provide lipids (cholesterol) management and cardiovascular genetics services.
CHF specialists include:
John A. Osborne, MD, PhD, FACC, Internal Medicine (ABIM), Cardiovascular Disease (ABIM), Board Certified in Echocardiography (ASE), Clinical Hypertension Specialist (ASH), Board Certified in Nuclear Cardiology (CBNC); Cardiac Care Provider of the Year 2002 from the AHA and Healthcare Hero 2003 from the Fort Worth Business Press
Legacy Heart Center, 6601 Preston Rd, Plano, TX, 75093. Phone (469) 326-3400.
CHF specialists include:
David Rawitscher, MD. Director of The Heart Failure Clinic at The Medical Center of Plano. Board certified in Cardiology, Nuclear Cardiology, Echocardiology and Internal Medicine.
Utah
No doctors from this state have listed their practices here yet
Vermont
No doctors from this state have listed their practices here yet
Virginia
Cardiovascular Associates of Virginia, 681 Hioaks Road, Suite H, Richmond, VA, 23225. Phone (804) 323-1804.
CHF specialists include:
Shaival J. Kapadia, MD, FACC
Anthony Galeo, MD, FACC
Nadine McCall, MS, RN, FNP
Cardiac Care Associates, PC, 8316 Arlington Blvd., Suite 500, Fairfax, VA, 22031. Phone (703) 641-9161
CHF specialists include:
Andrew Keller, MD, FACC, Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiology, NASPE for Pacing. Dr. Keller is the medical Director of a large heart transplant program that includes such advanced treatments as LVADs.
Washington
No doctors from this state have listed their practices here yet
Washington D C
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West Virginia
No doctors from this state have listed their practices here yet
Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics, 600 Highland Avenue, Mail Code 5710, Madison, WI 53792. Phone (608) 263-1690.
CHF specialists include:
David Murray, MD, FACC
Peter Rahko, MD, FACC
Walter Kao, MD, FACC
Elaine Winkel, MD, FACC
Maryl Johnson, MD, FACC
Nancy Sweitzer, MD, PhD, FACC.
Wyoming
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 Terms
ACCP
American College of Chest Physicians - Doctors may be a Fellow (has passed chest medicine speciality boards) or a Member (has completed specialty training in chest medicine but has not yet passed specialty boards). This is for doctors who specialize in chest medicine, devote most of their practice to their specialty, and are board certified in their specialty. Doctors must have at least 18 months of applied professional experience in their specialty
Board certified - Check your doctor's certification here
An MD has had 4 years of premedical education in a university, 4 years of medical school; and after receiving the MD degree, at least 3 years of specialty training under supervision, called a residency. A subspecialist is a doctor who has completed training in a general medical specialty and then takes even more training in a more specific sub-area of that specialty. Example: cardiology is a subspecialty of internal medicine, and pediatric surgery is a subspecialty of surgery.
     Specialty boards certify doctors as having met certain standards. There are 24 specialty boards that are recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the American Medical Association (AMA). Remember, a subspecialist first must be trained and certified as a specialist. In order to be certified as a medical specialist by one of these recognized boards, a doctor must: Candidates who passed written and oral (if required) exams and any other requirements are then certified as specialists. A similar process is followed for specialists who want to become subspecialists. Some boards issue certificates for a limited period of time, usually 7-10 years. To retain certification, Diplomates of those boards must re-certify by going through continuing education in their specialty and review of credentials
CCNS
Certified Critical-care Clinical Nurse Specialist
CCRN
Certified Critical-care Registered Nurse
CEN
Certified Emergency Nurse
FACC
Fellow of the American College of Cardiology: American College of Cardiology members who are both board certified in internal medicine and cardiovascular disease by the American Board of Internal Medicine and who devote 75% of their time to the practice of cardiology are eligible to become a Fellow. Other ACC membership categories include Associate Fellow, Member, and Affiliate-in-Training
MSN
Master of Science in Nursing

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