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Cardiovascular Medicine
Ioannis S Chatzizisis

Yiannis Chatzizisis, M.D., Ph.D.

Chief, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Clinical Profile | Publications
Biography: Yiannis S. Chatzizisis, MD, PhD is Professor of Cardiology, and Chief of the Cardiovascular Division at the Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami. He was trained in interventional cardiology and advanced non-invasive cardiovascular imaging at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. His translational and clinical research is actively funded by the NIH, industry, and...
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Pedro Covas

Pedro Covas

Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Pedro Covas is a highly skilled imaging cardiologist with specialized expertise in echocardiography and cardiac CT. He earned his medical degree from the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University and went on to complete his internal medicine residency and general cardiology fellowship at the George Washington University, where he also served as Chief Cardiology...
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Maria Carolina Delgado-Lelievre, M.D.

Maria Carolina Delgado-Lelievre, M.D.

Founder Director of the Comprehensive Hypertension Center
Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Delgado is Assistant Professor of Medicine, AHA Hypertension Specialist, Founding Director of the AHA-certified University of Miami Comprehensive Hypertension Center. Dr. Delgado is Board Certified Internal Medicine, former Hypertension Fellow and Faculty at the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine of the University of Michigan. Dr. Delgado was the recipient of the...
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Joshua Hare, M.D.

Joshua M. Hare, M.D., F.A.C.C., F.A.H.A.

Director, Donald Soffer Endowed Program in Regenerative Medicine
Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Hare graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and has a medical degree from Johns Hopkins University. He did his residency at Hopkins and fellowships at Hopkins, Harvard University and The Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Dr. Hare was Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Engineering and director of cardiac transplantation at Johns Hopkins, leading their...
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Lambrakos Litsa

Litsa K. Lambrakos, M.D.

Associate Professor
Clinical Profile
Biography: Dr. Litsa K. Lambrakos is an Associate Professor of Medicine in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Lambrakos completed medical school at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, where she graduated with a distinction in research at the top of her class. She subsequently completed her internship...
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Claudia Martinez

Claudia A. Martinez Bermudez, M.D.

Professor of Clinical Medicine
Clinical Profile | Publications
Biography: Dr. Claudia Martinez is a Professor of Clinical Medicine, Interventional Cardiologist in the Department of Medicine, Cardiovascular Division at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine. She is a physician-scientist, and the PI of several ongoing NIH studies examining cardiovascular disease in a diverse group of at-risk patients. Dr. Martinez has established a...
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George R. Marzouka, M.D.

George R. Marzouka, M.D.

Associate Professor of Clinical
Clinical Profile | Publications
Biography: Dr. George R. Marzouka is a board-certified cardiologist and Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami, serving as Chief of the Cardiovascular Section at the Miami VA Healthcare System. A lifelong Floridian, Dr. Marzouka completed his undergraduate and medical education at the University of Miami before pursuing residency and fellowship training at Jackson...
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Nikolaos Spilias

Nikolaos Spilias, M.D.

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Clinical Profile | Publications
Biography: Nikolaos Spilias, MD, is an Interventional and Structural Cardiologist and Assistant Professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He specializes in catheter-based, minimally invasive procedures for the treatment of coronary artery disease and heart valve disorders.

Dr. Spilias earned his medical degree with honors from the University...
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Omar Wever-Pinzon, M.D.

Omar Wever-Pinzon, M.D.

Director of the Heart Failure Section
Clinical Profile | Publications
Biography: Dr. Omar Wever-Pinzon is the Director of the Advanced Heart Failure Treatment and Recovery Section at the University of Miami Health System and Jackson Memorial’s Miami Transplant Institute. A board-certified specialist in Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology, he has extensive expertise in cardiomyopathy, heart failure, transplantation, and mechanical circulatory...
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Shijia Zhao

Shijia Zhao, Ph.D

Research Asst. Professor of Medicine

Biography: Dr. Zhao received his Ph.D. degree from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln with specialization in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics in 2013. He spent 2.5 years at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln serving as Lecturer and Research Fellow before joining the Chinese Academy of Sciences in March 2016 as an Associate Professor. In May 2017, He joined the Cardiovascular...
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Emeritus Faculty

Martin Bilsker

Martin Bilsker, M.D.

Simon Chakko

Simon Chakko, M.D.

Maureen Lowery

Maureen H. Lowery, M.D.

Myerburg Robert

Robert Myerburg, M.D.