WASHINGTON (Feb. 6, 2013) –Did you know: In the United States, one in four women die from heart disease; Women are six times more likely to die of heart disease than breast cancer; Coronary heart disease is the #1 killer of both men and women in the U.S. George Washington University (GW) experts are available to comment on heart health related stories.
Below is a list of GW School of Medicine and Health Sciences heart health experts available. Please contact Lisa Anderson at [email protected] or 202-994-3121 to set up interviews.
CARDIOLOGY
Richard J. Katz, MDDirector, Division of Cardiology; Bloedorn Professor of Cardiology
Brian G. Choi, MDAssistant Professor of Medicine
Jannet Lewis, MDProfessor of Medicine; Director of Echocardiography; Director, Women’s Heart Center
Ramesh Mazhari, MDAssistant Professor of Medicine
Marco Mercader, MDAssistant Professor of Medicine
Jonathan Reiner, MDProfessor of Medicine; Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratories
Scott Shapiro, MD, PhDAssistant Professor of Medicine; Director, Cardiac Arrhythmia Services
Allen Solomon, MDProfessor of Medicine
Cynthia Tracy, MDProfessor of Medicine, Associate Director of Cardiology; Director of Electrophysiology
P. Jacob Varghese, MDProfessor of Medicine; Director, Coronary Care Unit
Allan Wasserman, MDEugene Meyer Professor of Medicine; Chairman, Department of Medicine
William Weglicki, MDProfessor of Medicine and of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
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