Alan Heldman
Alan W. Heldman, M.D. (born 1962) is an American interventional cardiologist. Heldman graduated from Harvard College, University of Alabama School of Medicine, and completed residency and fellowship training at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He held positions on the faculty of Johns Hopkins from 1995 to 2007. In 2007 he became Clinical Chief of Cardiology at the University of Miami, Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine.
He published one of the first studies showing that a drug-coated stent (now known as a drug-eluting stent) could prevent restenosis.[1] His research interests include delivery of stem cells[2] to the heart for repair of myocardial infarction.[3] He is the principal investigator for a Phase I-II clinical trial of stem cell therapy for patients with left ventricular dysfunction after myocardial infarction.
His clinical interests include high risk and complex coronary intervention, treatment of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, including with alcohol septal ablation,[4] non-surgical treatments for valvular and structural heart disease, and strategies to eliminate complications from interventional cardiology procedures.
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External links
- NBC News, Stem Cell Therapy for Heart Disease
- Division of Cardiology at the University of Miami
- Hopkins Heart Institute Cardiovascular Report, Spring 2005
- "New Beat, All Heart" by Mary Ellen Miller
- NIH 2006 Research Festival: "Development of the Taxol-coated Stent - Steven Sollott (NIA) Alan Heldman (JHMI)
- Resuscitation from Right Ventricular Infarction
- Stents of a New Stripe
