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Charleston / South Carolina / United States
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Dr. Brian Houston is a cardiologist specializing in the management of advanced heart failure, including the care of patients before and after heart transplantation or left ventricular assist device (LVAD). After graduating from Emory University School of Medicine, Dr. Houston completed residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland. He was invited to serve as an assistant chief of service of the Thayer Firm at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and he spent that year caring for patients and instructing residents and medical students. He remained at Johns Hopkins for his general cardiology fellowship and spent an additional year of fellowship there training in the care of advanced heart failure, LVADs, and transplantation., Dr. Houston has been invited to present his research work at international scientific meetings. He has a particular interest in cardiac sarcoidosis and in the effects of LVAD support on the gastrointestinal tract, blood, and the right side of the heart. He was honored to be named a finalist for the American Heart Association’s Young Clinician Award in 2015., Dr. Houston believes that each patient with heart failure is unique and that, to live their best life, they require a caring and comprehensive approach from a dedicated medical team.
Charleston / South Carolina / United States
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Dr. Sinai Zyblewski graduated from Brown University in 1996 and completed medical school at the Medical University of South Carolina in 2002. She also completed her general pediatric residency, pediatric cardiology fellowship training, and Masters of Science in Clinical Research at MUSC. She joined the MUSC faculty in 2009 as a pediatric cardiac intensivist and fetal cardiologist., Since joining the MUSC faculty, Dr. Zyblewski has led the single ventricle interstage monitoring program and the cardiac neurodevelopmental program. Dr. Zyblewski is also the director of the fetal cardiology program and the director of the pediatric cardiology fellowship training program., Dr. Zyblewski’s research interests include feeding, growth, and neurodevelopmental outcomes in the single ventricle population. She was awarded an SCTR KL2 award to study perioperative intestinal barrier function in neonates requiring cardiac surgery and was the co-PI (with Dr. Kelley Argraves) on an NIH-NHLBI R21 award to study endothelial barrier function in children undergoing the Fontan operation. Additionally, she is an active committee member of the Pediatric Heart Network and National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Collaborative.
Charleston / South Carolina / United States
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Heart problems can significantly affect the years in your life and the quality of life in your years. At the MUSC Health Heart and Vascular Center, we provide personalized, compassionate care and the latest treatments to help you live life to the fullest. Our cardiologists and heart surgeons provide the highest level of specialization, expertise and an extensive range of treatment options for all types of heart problems. As the only academic medical center in South Carolina, we offer more heart disease specialists and treatment options than any other hospital in the state. Each year, our exceptionally skilled physicians save and transform hundreds of lives.
Charleston / South Carolina / United States
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A native of New York, Dr. Michael R. Gold graduated from SUNY at Stony Brook in 1975. He received his medical degree from the University of Colorado in 1985 and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Virginia in 1979. He completed his residency and cardiology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1991. Immediately thereafter, Dr. Gold joined the faculty of University of Maryland where he was the director of the cardiac electrophysiology service and assistant professor of medicine and physiology. In 2001, he became professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine., From 2002 to 2015, Dr. Michael R. Gold was the chief of cardiology, Michael E. Assey professor of medicine and medical director of the Heart and Vascular Center at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, South Carolina. Dr. Gold is the author of over 250 publications. He is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, in cardiovascular disease and clinical cardiac electrophysiology. His special interests include electrophysiology, adult cardiology and arrhythmias and he is a pioneer in the development of new defibrillation techniques and pacing for congestive heart failure.
Charleston / South Carolina / United States
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Charleston / South Carolina / United States
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Charleston / South Carolina / United States
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Charleston / South Carolina / United States
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Charleston / South Carolina / United States
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Dr. John M. Costello is a pediatric cardiologist who specializes in cardiac intensive care. He was recruited to MUSC Children’s Hospital in 2018 to serve as the Vice Chair of Clinical Research for the Department of Pediatrics and the Director of Research for the Children’s Heart Center., Dr. Costello received his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame and his medical degree from Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, IL. He completed a pediatric residency and dual fellowships in pediatric cardiology and critical care medicine, all at Children’s Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Prior to coming to MUSC, Dr. Costello was a faculty member in the Department of Cardiology at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. More recently, he served as the Director of Inpatient Cardiology and the Medical Director of the Regenstein Cardiac Care Unit at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago., Dr. Costello sees patients in the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at MUSC Children’s Hospital. He has a clinical interest in the evaluation and treatment of neonates with complex congenital heart disease., Dr. Costello is an active clinical investigator whose research focuses on critically ill children with cardiac disease. He has completed the Masters in Public Health program with a concentration in Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has authored or co-authored over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters, and is invited to speak regularly at national and international meetings. He is the current President of the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Society and the immediate Past-President of the Midwest Pediatric Cardiology Society. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium (PC4) and the Medical Advisory Board of the Children’s Heart Foundation. He is an Associate Editor for Cardiology in the Young and serves on the Editorial Board for the World Journal for Pediatric and Congenial Heart Surgery.
Charleston / South Carolina / United States
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Dr. Michael Field specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias (electrical abnormalities of the heart). His practice also includes minimally-invasive catheter ablation procedures for the treatment of atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia and other arrhythmias, as well as implantation and management of cardiac devices such as pacemakers and defibrillators., He completed medical school at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, both in Baltimore, Maryland. He completed fellowship training in Cardiology and Cardiovascular Electrophysiology at Brigham and Womens Hospital / Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts., He has written several of the national guidelines on the management of patients with cardiac arrhythmias and is a nationally known expert in the management of atrial fibrillation. He has been awarded “Best Doctors in America by Best Doctors, Inc. and Top Doctors in Cardiology.
Charleston / South Carolina / United States
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Charleston / South Carolina / United States
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Dr. Arni Nuttings clinical specialties are in echocardiography and congenital cardiac MRI. In addition, he attends on the general pediatric step-down ward and sees general pediatric patients in outpatient clinic. Most of his outpatient time is spent in the North Charleston Clinic but he occasionally sees patients downtown or in Murrells Inlet.
Charleston / South Carolina / United States
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Dr. Bruce Usher is a general cardiologist. He has been a member of the Cardiology Division at MUSC for 31 years. He has been director of the general cardiology fellowship training program for 30 years and is extremely proud of the fellows who have been trained over the past 30 years., Dr. Ushers interests are in patient care and noninvasive imaging especially echocardiography. He has served as the director of the echo lab for 31 years.
Charleston / South Carolina / United States
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Charleston / South Carolina / United States
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Dr. Thomas DiSalvo attended Harvard College and graduated with honors from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Following medical residency and chief residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and serving on faculty at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, he completed fellowship training in cardiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. After ten years of clinical practice as an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard, he was recruited as medical director of the Vanderbilt Heart and Vascular Institute and as associate professor of medicine at Vanderbilt. In 2015, Dr. DiSalvo was recruited as professor of medicine and chief of the division of cardiology at MUSC. Throughout his career, he has been an active and busy clinical cardiologist committed to the highest standards of excellence. As an educator, although he has had the privilege of educating students and physicians in training and lecturing at many national and international cardiology meetings, Dr. DiSalvo enjoys educating patients and their families even more, both in the clinic and at the bedside.
Charleston / South Carolina / United States
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Dr. George Taylor, professor of medicine, completed medical school at the University of Illinois and did his internal medicine and cardiology training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. He then served on the faculties of the Johns Hopkins University and the University of Virginia before entering private practice in Springfield, Illinois. He joined MUSC in 1997 and serves as a general cardiologist based at the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center. His particular interest is the teaching of medical students, residents, and cardiology fellows, and he has authored 15 medical textbooks.
Charleston / South Carolina / United States
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Andrew M. Atz, M.D., is a professor and chair of pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). He has amassed an important and productive career in cardiology-based patient oriented research. Instrumental in reporting the initial early human use of inhaled nitric oxide in patients with reversible pulmonary hypertension, he has subsequently expanded his research experience into multicenter clinical drug and management studies. He was the director of the pediatric cardiac intensive care unit (PCICU) at MUSC for 15 years until assuming the role of chief of pediatric cardiology in 2013. He is also director of the pediatric clinical trials group. He became chair of the Department of Pediatrics in 2017. Dr. Atz has been a principal investigator for NHLBI-sponsored Pediatric Heart Network (PHN) and is the network chair for three of the ongoing studies. He is also a principal investigator in the NICHD-sponosred Idea States Pediatric Clinical Trials Network. Dr. Atz has acknowledged expertise in pediatric cardiac intensive care, with a special interest in the clinical management of perioperative care and pulmonary hypertension. He has received funding for more than 40 multi-institutional prospective clinical trials assessing pharmacologic therapies and monitoring devices.
Charleston / South Carolina / United States
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Dr. Terrence O’Brien is board certified in cardiovascular medicine and internal medicine. He is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. His undergraduate degree is in chemistry and he has a master’s degree in biological sciences, both at Stanford University. Dr. O’Brien did his three-year internal medicine residency at Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas (Parkland Hospital), and a three-year clinical cardiology fellowship at the University of California, San Diego, where he also did a two-year research cardiology fellowship in molecular cardiology as a Bugher Fellow. Dr. O’Brien is currently professor of medicine and regenerative medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina where he has been since 1993., Dr. O’Brien’s clinical interests include all aspects of inpatient and outpatient general cardiology including coronary disease, heart failure, valvular disorders, lipid management, arrhythmias and prevention. He sees scheduled patients at MUSC downtown as well as at the MUSC cardiology clinic in East Cooper, where he is the medical director., Dr. O’Briens research career has involved both basic laboratory research examining the mechanisms of heart hypertrophy and failure as well as participation in human clinical trials evaluating new medications and diagnostic techniques in patients with various forms of heart failure., Dr. O’Brien is the author of over 55 peer reviewed publications. He is a member of a number of professional societies including the American Society of Echocardiography, the American Heart Association, the American College of Cardiology, the Heart Failure Society of America and the International Society for Heart Research. Dr. O’Brien’s research has been supported by grants from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the American Heart Association, the Medical University of South Carolina and numerous other sponsors.
Charleston / South Carolina / United States
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Charleston / South Carolina / United States
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Dr. Zile is a graduate of Rush University School of Medicine. He did his internal medicine residency at Rush Presbyterian St. Lukes Medical Center in Chicago, a clinical cardiology fellowship at Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston and a research cardiology fellowship at the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Boston. Dr. Zile is currently the Charles Ezra Daniel professor of medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina., He also serves as the director of cardiology at the Ralph H. Johnson Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Charleston. He is an adjunct professor of bioengineering at Clemson University., Dr. Ziles research career has involved both basic laboratory research examining the mechanisms of disease development and progression and translational clinical research examining the application of these basic mechanisms to development of effective treatment methods., Dr. Zile is a recognized leader in the areas of cardiac function, congestive heart failure, diastolic heart failure and valvular heart disease. His research is supported by grants from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the American Heart Association, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Medical University of South Carolina., Dr. Zile is the author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications. He is a member of a number of professional societies including the American College of Physicians, American Federation of Clinical Research, American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, the Heart Failure Society of America, International Society of Heart Failure, and the American Physiology Society. Dr. Zile has served on the research, educational and program committees of these organizations. He serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology and Circulation and is an editorial consultant to a number of others including Circulation Research, Journal of Clinical Investigation and the American Journal of Physiology. Dr. Zile is a member of the Association of University Cardiologists and a member of the ABIM Subspecialty Board on Cardiovascular Disease.