Hall-Garcia Cardiology
6624 Fannin, #2480
Houston, Texas 77030-2312
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 | Dr. Mehdi Razavi and Rice University bioengineering students, cited in the 2011 HoustonPress Best Medical Breakthrough - 2011 for his work with automated external defibrillators. Developing new pads which lowered time between shocks for cardiac arrest patients. Click here to read more. |  |
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 | Dr. Neil E. Strickman, cited in the 2011 U.S. News and World Reports as one of the Top Doctors in the country. Click here to read more. |  |
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Drs. Ali Massumi and Mehdi Razavi, using the latest technology to provide a successful treatment for father or three. View a heartwarming video featuring this happy father and his family at www.texasheart.org. |
April, 2011
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H Texas magazine (www.htexas.com) is out with its annual listings of "Houston's Top Doctors, 2011," and Texas Heart Institute physicians account very well. The physicians on the list are nominated by their peers and the magazine's readers. |
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February, 2011
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Twelfth Symposium on Cardiac Arrhythmias Practical Approach to Heart Rhythm Disorders held at The Houstonian Hotel. |
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On Hand from left to right Drs. Mohammad Saeed, Michael Eifling, Michael Bensler, Vivend Somers, Bruce Wiekof, Abdi Rasekh, Ali Massumi, Mehdi Razavi. |
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Dr. Raymond F. Stainback, III, THI's Medical Director of Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging and Echocardiography, has been elected president of the Board of Directors of the Intersocietal Commission for the Accreditation of Echocardiography Laboratories (ICAEL). Dr. Stainback, who has represented the American Society of Echocardiography on the ICAEL Board since 2004, will serve a two-year term in the presidency. Read the full announcement from ICAEL. |
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08/20/2010 Hall-Garcia Cardiology Associate's own Dr. James M. Wilson, Director of Cardiology Education, was honored by his hometown, Jena, Louisiana, on August 20 with the Key to the City. |
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03/28/2010 Dr. Strickman recently attended the TCT at CIT in Beijing China in late March 2010. He was one of a handful of US physicians personally invited by the president of the society to help educate and train local physicians in the field of Peripheral Vascular Disease (PVD). |
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While at the meeting he was invited by CORDIS Johnson and Johnson Asia Pacific to help inaugurate the Endovascular club. |  |
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| During a recent 2 week trip to southeast Asia Dr Neil E Strickman ran a teaching course as follows: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Jan 8, 2010: |
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First PVD Symposium in Putrajaya, Malaysia. There were 20 physicians in attendance. Live demonstrations of CV technology were shown |  |
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Then he flew to Penang, the top of the Malaysian peninsula to attend as a guest lecturer at the PV Symposia. Many of the trainees and nurses came away with a distinct change in the way patients should be examined and treated. |
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From there he traveled a short distance to Bangkok, Thailand to perform opening of totally occluded leg blood vessels with the local expert physicians |
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In Khonkein, Thailand ( on the Laos border) again Carotid intervention was reintroduced. Multiple doctors attended this large training session |  |
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| The culmination of the trip was in Taipei, Taiwan where he was one of the major speakers in the TTT (Taiwan Transcatheter Therapeutics). We took a breath taking trip to the Taroko Gorge which revealed spectacular images |
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| Personalized training at the Buddhist hospital was well received. Dr Strickman has long been recognized as a leader of patient care, physician education and academic prowess in the both the USA and SE Asia. | ||
Eleventh Symposium on Cardiac Arrhythmias: |
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02/20/10 - "This year's Symposium on Cardiac Arrhythmias was an enormous success, with over 150 attendees from across Texas. hosted by Dr. Ali Massumi, this year's guest speakers were Dr. Thomas Peter from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in California, speaking about supraventricular tachycardia, and Dr. Michael Gold of the Medical University of South Carolina, speaking about cardiac resynchronization therapy. In addition, all the members of the electrophysiology section of Hall-Garcia Cardiology Associates contributed talks ranging from ablation and medical therapy of atrial fibrillation to management of intracardiac devices for non-electrophysiologists." |
