had nice visit today by Liam Iturrizaga, son of Dr Jose Iturrizaga Director of Heart Transplant / VAD
@utmbhealth
- Liam is 7 yo brilliant boy passionate about UTMB- if I am successful, he will be the youngest recruit for
@utmbcardiology
@utmbnews
attending
@CRT_meeting
for nearly 2 decades since my interv fellowship; gets better every yr;
#CRT2024
was the best (also special for me w my boy Daniel attending for 1st time);congrats
@ron_waksman
/team on leading a great meeting
@utmbcardiology
Big day for
@utmbcardiology
& our stellar UTMB EP team, led by Dr
@deansabayon
, who performed w his team successful AF ablation procedures, using PFA Farapulse technology. Proud of our team who did the 3rd commercial case in the US today on day
#1
of its launch in Tx
@utmbhealth
After a long hiatus, I have decided - as one of my 2024 New Year’s resolutions - to return to Twitter.
Happy New Year & best wishes for more happiness, success & health to my family, friends and colleagues at
@utmbhealth
@utmbcardiology
@UTMBInternalMed
🌺🎄🎊
Can’t be prouder of my
@utmbcardiology
team; a week ago, Berryl
#hurricane
hit
#Galveston
/
#houston
hard; 3 senior interventional cardiologists (I, Gilani & Rangasetty - thanks to ur dedication) slept in house to address cardiac emergencies & Cath labs to operate nonstop through
While frequently on call for STEMI, tonite is my 1st overnight hospital stay in years to cover CV emergencies during Hurricane Laura - - Just passed by CCU pts & saw our tireless residents & fellow working hard into early morning hours.
@BCM_InternalMed
@BCMHeart
#FIT
walking today at 6 am w my baby Daniel in the park before heading to hospital for CCU rounds. Happy Fathers Day
#fathersday
& God Bless mom every day of the year 🌺
Congratulations Dr Chatila for another well-deserved educational award at
@utmbcardiology
. Under his PD leadership, the HF fellowship at
@utmbcardiology
has expanded to 3 HF fellows/ yr & now attracting the best / brightest.
@utmbhealth
@utmbnews
proud of Dr Afaq Motiwala & our interventional team
@utmbcardiology
who just launched the CoroFlow platform to invasively assess coronary microvascular dysfunction CMD in our cath labs (second in Greater Houston to adopt this innovation to the Cath Lab)
@utmbhealth
@UTMBProvost
kudos to
@utmbcardiology
Interventional team who performed First DCB case in Greater Houston in a hi-risk elderly patient w ostial LAD ISR/mod-severe AS/ESRD -
@utmbhealth
also second institution in Tx to adopt this new FDA-approved technology
@utmbnews
#scai
#ACC
few
@utmbcardiology
faculty/fellows at graduation party- Proud of our fellowships growth (from 6 to 8 Cardio fellows/y; from 2 to 3 interventional Cardio/y; from 2 to 3 HF fellows/yr)- a testimonial to our commitment to training the next generation of CV specialists
am particularly proud of the success
@utmbcardiology
had over past 2 yrs in promoting our dedicated/meritorious faculty members. Congrats to our 5 stars -Drs Gilani, Khalife, Abu Sharifeh, Iturrizaga, Chatila- on their promotion to Prof / Assoc. Professor
@UTMBProvost
@utmbnews
Passed by our Cath Labs at 7:30 PM this Friday evening to witness our dedicated interventional & EP faculty, fellows & staff of
@utmbcardiology
working hard & saving lives. TY for your commitment to patient care & clinical excellence
@utmbhealth
@utmbnews
@UTMBInternalMed
Congrats Manos, Deepak, Subash & colleagues. Pleasure working w you and seeing DIVA published.
@esbrilakis
@DLBHATTMD
@docHJ
@FaisalLatifMD
Drug-eluting stents versus bare-metal stents in saphenous vein grafts: a double-blind, randomised trial
Being named among America’s Best Cardiac Hospitals 2024 underscores our continuous efforts
@utmbhealth
to advance cardiac care through innovation, research and patient-centered practices. This distinction not only celebrates our commitment to clinical care but sets a benchmark
Thanks to our Chief Cardiology Fellows - Drs Mayank Agarwal & Syed Hasan - for their dedication, hard work & excellent leadership - Congratulations on ur accomplishments & graduation -
@utmbcardiology
@UTMBDOM
@UTMBInternalMed
#ACCFIT
just got message from fresh interv card fellow graduate
@BCMHeart
: “Yesterday did 3h of CPR on young guy for In hospital arrest for radiation induced restrictive Dz and RV failure. I placed him on cardiohelp..he woke up today..my mind is blown “. So proud of our stellar fellows🌺
was picking my laundry today;met manager of dryCleaner. Nice gentleman who immigrated from India. His son was med student @ Baylor & rotated in my clinic.His dad is so proud his son is now a 3rd yr Ophthalmology resident. God Bless this country: the American Dream is well & Alive
A superb clinician-investigator; great mentor; a humble and caring physician; and a dear friend — congratulations
@DLBHATTMD
on this most deserved award. 🎊🎉🍾
#AHA2019
#aha19
@AHAMeetings
Just finished my 9th recommendation letter for our hardworking IM residents for Cardio Fellowship. Glad to have worked know an excellent pipeline of young talents are ready to become the next generation of cardiologists
#Cardiology
@BCMDeptMedicine
@BCM_InternalMed
@wilzawall
#Beirut
, the ‘Mother of Laws’ & the ‘Paris of the Middle East’, has been continuously inhabited for > 5000 years — and tonite 300,000 of its inhabitants are homeless. Pray for
#Lebanon
🥺😢
after a long day in cath lab, our stellar interventional cardiology fellows converging from our 3 hospital training sites go atherectomy techniques in the wet lab.
@BCMHeart
@BCMDeptMedicine
pleasure speaking on Coronary Revasc in TAVI patients at
@CRT_meeting
; still no robust evidence supporting routine revasc pre-TAVI; showed also pic of ‘Old Red’ reminder of the long tradition of clinical excellence at
@utmbcardiology
@utmbhealth
@utmbnews
Thanks to our 3 graduating interventional cardiology fellows for ur hard work & dedication, & congratulations on your accomplishments - we re also happy to have our interventional fellow awardee Dr Hashim Alwash join us as a faculty member
@utmbcardiology
@UTMBDOM
Kudos to our own Dr Diann Gaalema
@utmbcardiology
presenting at main event her RCT testing the efficacy of case management (CM), financial incentives (FI) or their combination on improving Card Rehab adherence.
@utmbhealth
@ACCinTouch
Great
#ACC2024
- excellent science, transformative RCTs, pleasure to see many friends & colleagues and spend time w our faculty / fellows / house staff - so proud of the achievements and strong showing of our
@utmbcardiology
team
@ACCinTouch
@utmbhealth
@utmbnews
Dr Raja -med director of UTMB Cardiology mainland services- providing his signature EKG refresher class at Galveston County ESD2 EMS. Thank you Waheed for a phenomenal job, as usual, & ur exemplary leadership.
@utmbhealth
@utmbcardiology
@utmbnews
Congratulations to our own
@AbdelfattahMD
who demonstrated that cardiac damage staging has a prognostic impact on mortality in AS patients; adopting such an approach may help w enhance risk stratification & timing of AVR
@utmbcardiology
@UTMBProvost
@utmbnews
Great Lecture by my chief, Dr Christie Ballantyne, the awardee of the most prestigious 2019 Michael E DeBakey Excellence in Research award at Baylor Coll of Medicine.
@bcmhouston
@BCMHeart
@BCMDeptMedicine
@CBallantyneMD
just finished a 2-week tough CCU rounds — & glad to resume my early morning walk routine at Hermann Park (today starting 4 am)- nothing nicer than starting day w early walk and reflections/planning for a busy day in hospital.
Thank you. It is a pleasure & privilege to work with, mentor, and support our stellar residents at
@BCMDeptMedicine
to advance & become successful cardiologists in the community & academia.
@BCM_InternalMed
@bcmhouston
Just finished (hopefully last😕) STEMI of the weekend - clots after intial aspiration pass, & barely TIMI II achieved.
Sad to see a patient in mid 60’s w many risk factors, who is completely unaware of cardiac symptoms/MI presentation (had typical angina)😔😢
Now I understand importance of push ups
@DrMarthaGulati
& others are advocating 🌺😊
Association Between Push-up Exercise Capacity and Future Cardiovascular Events Among Active Adult Men. | Cardiology | JAMA Network Open | JAMA Network
great breakfast discussion today 7 am w Igor Palacios, MGH Interventional Cardiology Director, & our interventional fellows on Percutaneous valve therapies
Two of our stellar cardiology fellows with 35 and 40 publications, respectively (& counting) who won the cardiology fellowship research award - Kudos to Drs Ravi Thakker & Kirolos Barssoum
@utmbcardiology
@UTMBInternalMed
Finished yesterday morning my annual lectures at
@bcmhouston
Medical School via Zoom. Virtual lectures are obviously becoming the norm; however, I miss visiting the med school and interacting w our young and brilliant MS.
#medicalstudent
#MedStudentTwitter
‘Research - It is a Journey, not a Destination’
Dr Christie Ballantyne as he was receiving the 2019 DeBakey Excellence in Research Award
@CBallantyneMD
Finishing quiet CCU weekend rounds. Was commenting to housestaff about unsual weekend wen CardioPulm arrest (VF/ hypotensive/hypoxemic) at 4 am in young patient. Emergency coro angiogram nl. RV angiogram w inferoapical RV HK & suspicion of Lt PA clot. Enough for quiet weekend.
Proud and appreciative of Dr Rangasetty, PD of our Interventional Cardiology Fellowship program, for his efforts to advance our interventional programs & his dedication to
@utmbhealth
@utmbcardiology
mission
proud to see the 3 stars of
@utmbcardiology
(Drs Diann Gaalema,Danielle El Haddad & Ivana Garza) co-chairing the AHA Bay Area Go Red Luncheon event — they reflect our commitment at
@utmbhealth
to improve CV Health in women
@utmbnews
#AHA
To overcome obstacles, there are no substitutes for persistence, integrity, good strategy & hard work - - they always pay off. I learned this from my boy Daniel, 2 yo then, who kept trying until he became successful.
drove family to
#IAH
for a trip to Europe; horrendous parking experience; difficult-to-read /confusing signs; no spot to sit w family before flight except a small coffeeshop w No seats & one (kind but) overworked barista: lamentable services /poor infrastructure at IAH airport;
Our Master Educators at
@utmbcardiology
- Drs M Shalaby [General Cardio], M Khan [Interventional Cardio], K Chatila [HF], & Narayanan [EP] - are recognized by their fellows for their teaching efforts & dedication to our educational mission
@UTMBDOM
@UTMBDOM
#medicaleducation
visiting Sarajevo - my wife birth place. Great city w rich history and great heritage spanning > 600 years covering the eras of the Ottoman & Austrio-Hungarian empires
Kudos to our
@utmbcardiology
Interventional Cardiology team who performed the 1st DCB case in greater Houston area in a high-risk elderly patient w severe ostial LAD ISR/ ESRD/mod-severe AS using Impella assistance-
@utmbhealth
is 2nd institution in Tx to adopt this new technology
en route to ACC meeting & just finished working on 11th letter of recommendation for our IM residents applying to Cardiology - Truly GREAT applicants - smart/hard working/driven/excellent clinicians: undoubtedly, superb future cardiologists.
@BCM_InternalMed
@BCMDeptMedicine
cannot agree w this more,
@DrMarthaGulati
. Se spend ample time last CCU rounds educating myself and CCU team about SGLT2/GLP1 inhibitors. CV specialists should know how to use these agents 🌺
Returning home from abroad-run across these poisons sold in Duty Free zone- can’t comprehend the logic of allowing firms to sell tobacco which kills people (by their own admission ‘smoking Kills’)- & also people buying them in flocks
@utmbcardiology
@utmbcardiology
#AHA
#tobacco
One of the best Ground Rounds we had.
Thank you Dr Fonarow,
@gcfmd
, the 22nd JK Alexander Visiting Professor at Baylor and VA Houston for great lecture and wonderful teaching experience to our fellows and housestaff.
7) We found women with
#ASCVD
were 45% and 35% less likely to be prescribed aspirin and statins, respectively, and had 28% greater odds of ≥2 ED visits. In other words, we showed that women were not getting the same level of care as men, and they feel that way too!!
#JAHAJC
a very sad moment for
#lebanon
.
#beirut
devastation is unimaginable. My prayers and thoughts are w my family, friends & country men / women. & thanks for all my friends & colleagues at AUB & other med centers for their heroic efforts. God bless
#lebanon
This is the moment an explosion occurred in the Lebanese capital Beirut.
The explosion appeared to be centred around the city's port area containing warehouses and rippled through several areas of the capital.
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@ErinMichos
20 minutes per patient! What all can a physician do!! Result of a volume based compensation! It’s really about finding the tricks to be efficient and engaging at the same time.
Pleasure to participate in this year DoM Research day. Robust science & outstanding presentations. Another testimonial of the transformative changes & major clinical & research advances in our DoM over past 2 yrs at Baylor.
@bcmhouston
@BCM_InternalMed
Thanks
@ErinMichos
How easy is to access the MEPS for research projects— let us say by fellows-in-training? Is it a laborious / demanding process?
#JAHAJC
@DrMarthaGulati
@docHJ
@DrMarthaGulati
@JAHA_AHA
Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) is collected & sponsored from Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ) through national series of surveys. Includes telephone surveys. Additional info on healthcare utilization & cost collected from physicians, hospitals & pharmacies