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Professor
of Medicine
Co-Director,
Adult Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Division of Cardiology, Interventional Cardiology Section
Address:
UCSF Medical Center
Long Hospital, Suite L523
505 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0103
Telephone/FAX
Phone: (415) 353-8969
Fax: (415) 353-3090 |
Dr. Thomas
Ports is director of Interventional Cardiology and co-director of the Cardiac
Catheterization Laboratory for adult patients. Since performing the first coronary
angioplasty at UCSF Medical Center in 1979, he has accumulated vast experience
in performing catheter interventions. In addition to elective angioplasty,
he specializes in the treatment of acute myocardial infarction in the Cardiac
Catheterization Laboratory, balloon valvuloplasty of stenotic valves and alcohol
septal ablation in obstructive cardiomyopathy. Ports, a professor of medicine
at UCSF, is called upon frequently to give second opinions in difficult cases.
| Medical School |
Ohio StateUniversity
School of Medicine 1973 |
| Residencies |
University of Chicago
Hospital, Internal Medicine 1976 |
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Fellowships |
UCSF Medical Center
Cardiology 1978 |
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Certifications
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Internal Medicine 1976
Cardiology 1979
Interventional Cardiology 1999
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