DR. JAGAT NARULA, CHIEF OF CARDIOLOGY AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE AND EDITOR IN CHIEF OF JOURNAL OF AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY IS GUEST LECTURER ON DECEMBER 29TH AT NUMC
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December 16, 2009
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DR. JAGAT NARULA, CHIEF OF CARDIOLOGY AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT IRVINE AND EDITOR IN CHIEF OF JOURNAL OF AMERICAN COLLEGE OF CARDIOLOGY IS GUEST LECTURER ON DECEMBER 29TH AT NUMC
East Meadow, NY…….The department of cardiology is very pleased to announce the first of a special guest lecture series, featuring one of the premier physician scientists in cardiology, Dr. Jagat Narula, chief of cardiology, University of California, Irvine.
“The cardiology department is honored to have Dr. Narula as our guest lecturer on December 29th at 1PM in the amphitheater. Dr. Narula is author to over 700 peer reviewed publications, 25 books, 80 chapters and is a world authority in heart failure and imaging,” said Sanjay Doddamani, MD, chair of the cardiology department at NUMC.
Lecture topic: “Who gets that Heart Attack – An Approach to the Worried Well!”
Guest Lecturer: Jagat Narula MD, DM, PhD, FACC, FAHA, FRCP
Professor of Medicine and Chief of Cardiology, Medical Director, Memorial Heart & Vascular Institute Medical Director, Edwards Center for Advanced Cardiovascular Technology, University of California, Irvine, Editor-in-chief, Journal of the American College of Cardiology
Tuesday, December 29th
12 Noon-1PM – NUMC Amphitheater
Dr. Narula, after completing cardiology, heart failure & transplantation, and imaging fellowships at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, moved to Hahnemann University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, where he was the Thomas J. Vischer professor of medicine, chief of the division of cardiology, vice-chairman of the department of internal medicine, director of heart failure & transplantation center, and director of the center of molecular cardiology. He joined the University of California, Irvine in November 2003 as professor of medicine, chief, division of cardiology and the associate dean.
Dr. Narula is nationally and internationally acclaimed investigator in clinical and basic cardiology research. His major areas of interest are two fold: (1), “Who gets the heart attack and is it possible to identify such individuals towards primary prevention?” and (2), “Is it possible to prevent or reverse the heart failure?” He has contributed enormously to the development of novel noninvasive imaging techniques in these areas and his research is funded, in part, by the grants from National Institutes of Health. He is considered to be a true translationist and one of the rare investigators who has published in the best basic science journals (such as Nature and Science) and the best clinical journals (such as the New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Clinical Practice and Lancet) with equal facility.
Dr. Narula has authored more than 700 research publications or presentations and edited more than 25 books or special journal supplements. He has been awarded as ‘the best young investigator’ on several occasions for his research contributions. His mentoring prowess is exemplified by the fact that 20 of his fellows, working in his research laboratory, have been awarded young investigator awards. He serves on various committees of the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, Heart Failure Society of America, American Society of Echocardiography, and American Society of Nuclear Cardiology. He is the Editor-in-chief of the Journal of American College of Cardiology- Cardiovascular Imaging, associate editor of the Journal of American College of Cardiology and founder editor of the Heart Failure Clinics of North America. He has also been selected as the editor-in-chief of the famous text book of Cardiology, Friedberg’s Diseases of the Heart, going into its fourth edition.
Nurses, doctors, PA’s, NPs, medical students and those interested in heart disease are welcome to attend.
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