Our Speakers
The following individuals have generously offered their time to speak to your group:
Stephanie A. Coulter, MD
Director, Center for Women's Heart & Vascular Health, THI
Hospital affiliations: SLEH.
Academic appointment: Baylor.
Medical school: UTMSH.
Specialty training: THI.
Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine (Cardiovascular Disease).
Specialty interests: Echocardiography, valvular heart disease, women and heart disease.
Sheila K. Heinle, MD, FACC, FASE
Hospital affiliations: SLEH.
Medical school: Univ. Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
Specialty training: Duke Univ. Medical Center.
Certification: Amer. Board Internal Medicine; Amer. Board Cardiovascular Disease; Nat'l Board Echocardiography (Adult Comprehensive Echocardiography).
Specialty interests: Cardiology, echocardiography, echo assessment of valvular heart disease, clinical echocardiography, echocardiography teaching.
Eduardo A. Hernandez-Vila, MD, FACC
Hospital affiliations: SLEH.
Academic appointment: Clin. Asst. Prof., Baylor.
Medical school: U. Puerto Rico, 1994.
Specialty training: U. Alabama, THI.
Certification: Am. Board Internal Med. (Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology).
Specialty interests: General cardiology, interventional cardiology, advanced peripheral interventions, nuclear medicine, carotid stenting, aneurysms and limb salvage.
D. Richard Leachman, MD, FACC
Hospital affiliation: SLEH.
Academic appointment: Assoc. Prof., UTHSCH.
Medical school: Southwestern, 1977.
Specialty training: Parkland Hosp. (Dallas).
Certification: Am. Board Internal Med. (Cardiovascular Disease).
Specialty interests: Clinical cardiology, cardiac catheterization, angiography, interventional cardiology.
Deborah Ellen Meyers, MD, FRACP, FACC
Medical Director, Heart Failure Programs, THI
Hospital affiliation: SLEH.
Medical school: University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.
Specialty training: Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Washington University in St. Louis; University of Queensland in Brisbane Australia.
Certification: Am. Board Internal Med. (Cardiovascular Disease, Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology).
Specialty interests: Chronic disease managements, care delivery models, patient centered practice models, medical decision making, physical activity, heart transplantation, ventricular assist devices.
Mehdi Razavi, MD
Director, Electrophysiology Clinical Research, THI
Hospital affiliation: SLEH.
Medical school: Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1995.
Specialty training: Mayo Graduate School of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota.
Certification: Am. Board Internal Med. (Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology)
Specialty interests: Electrophysiology, radiofrequency ablation, device implantation, supraventricular arrhythmias, sudden cardiac death.
Guilherme V. Silva, MD
Assistant Medical Director, Stem Cell Center, THI
Hospital affiliations: St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital.
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese.
Medical school: Federal University Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1994.
Specialty training: The University of Texas Medical School; Texas Heart Institute; Baylor College of Medicine, Houston.
Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine (Cardiology, Echocardiography, Nuclear Cardiology).
Specialty interests: Cardiology and interventional cardiology; coronary and peripheral angioplasty, echocardiography and nuclear cardiology; stem cell therapy; stents; PFO closure.
Raymond F. Stainback III, MD, FACC, FASE
Medical Director, Non-Invasive Cardiac Imaging, THI
Hospital affiliations: SLEH, Texas Medical Center; St. Luke's Sugarland Hospital; St. Joseph Medical Center, Houston, Texas.
Academic appointment: Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine.
Medical school: Baylor College of Medicine, 1987.
Specialty training: Vanderbilt University; University of California, San Francisco.
Certification: Am. Board Internal Med. (Cardiovascular Disease); National Board of Echocardiography.
Specialty interests: Clinical cardiology; coronary artery disease prevention; heart failure; valve disease, echocardiography, intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography.
Amy L. Woodruff, MD, FACC
Hospital affiliations: SLEH, Methodist, Woman's.
Academic appointment: Clin. Asst. Prof, Baylor; Clin. Instuctor, UTHSC.
Medical school: Baylor, 1995.
Specialty training: Texas Heart Institute, Baylor.
Certification: Am. Board Internal Med. (Cardiovascular Disease); National Board of Echocardiography.
Specialty interests: Prevention of heart disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, women and heart disease, cardiac echocardiography.
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