Integrating Advances in Cardiovascular Imaging into Your Practice
Kirk T. Spencer, MD
Professor of Medicine
Associate Director, Cardiac Imaging Center
Kirk T. Spencer, MD, is a cardiologist and expert in echocardiography, the evaluation of heart function using sound waves. In addition to echocardiography, Dr. Spencer’s clinical interests include cardiac MRI, cardiac stress testing, congestive heart failure, and cardiac disease in renal failure/renal transplant.
Dr. Spencer has participated in several important clinical research studies and continues to search for new and better echocardiographic testing methods. A prolific author, Dr. Spencer has written over 100 journal articles, abstracts, and book chapters on echocardiography and other cardiac topics.
Clinical Interests
- Cardiology
- Echocardiography
- Transesophageal echocardiography
- Stress testing
- Cardiac MRI
- Cardiac disease in renal failure
- Congestive heart failure
Amit R. Patel, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Director, Cardiac Magnetic Resonance
Dr. Amit R. Patel, MD, is a cardiologist who specializes in cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and cardiac computed tomography (CT)—new, non-invasive techniques for evaluating diseases of the heart muscle and of the coronary arteries. Cardiac MRI and cardiac CT are important diagnostic tools that provide clinicians with detailed images of a beating heart and its blood vessels.
Dr. Patel’s research is focused on refining and expanding clinical applications of cardiac MRI and cardiac CT. He is particularly interested in using MRI and CT to perform stress testing of the heart.
Clinical Interests
- Cardiology
- Cardiac imaging
- Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)
- Cardiac computed tomography (CT)
- Echocardiography
- Nuclear cardiology
- Stress testing
- Diabetic heart disease
- Infiltrative heart disease, such as cardiac sarcoidosis and cardiac iron overload
- Pericardial disease
Roberto M. Lang, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging Laboratory
Roberto M. Lang, MD, is an internationally renowned cardiologist and specialist in echocardiography, the study of heart function using sound waves. Dr. Lang uses his vast knowledge of cardiac imaging techniques to evaluate patients with a wide variety of heart conditions, including heart failure and valve disease. Dr. Lang was a pioneer in the development of three-dimensional echocardiography, a state-of-the-art method to observe heart function. He is a past president of the American Society of Echocardiography.
Clinical Interests
Jeanne DeCara, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Jonathan Moss, MD, PhD
Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Victor Mor-Avi
Research Associate (Professor)
Director of Cardiac Imaging Research
Anne M. O’Connor, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Rupa Mehta Sanghani
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Medical Director, Cardiac Rehabilitation
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