Dr. Andrew Boyle is a cardiologist at the UCSF Heart and Vascular Center
who specializes in caring for patients with coronary artery disease.
Dr.
Boyle is a trained Interventional Cardiologist who performs diagnostic
and therapeutic cardiac catheterizations, coronary artery angioplasty and stenting. and closure of atrial septal defects (ASD) and patent foramen ovale (PFO). His research interests include adult stem cell therapies
for heart disease, transradial cardiac catheterization, and novel imaging methods in the cardiac catheterization
lab.
Dr.
Boyle moved to Australia with his family as a child and grew up there,
earning his medical degree at Monash University in 1994. He completed an
internship, residency in internal medicine and fellowship in cardiology
at St Vincent’s
Hospital Melbourne. He received board certification in Internal Medicine and
Cardiology from the Royal Australasian College of Physicians in 2002. During
his cardiology training, he developed a keen interest in developing new techniques
to prevent and treat the development of heart failure inpatients after a heart
attack, in particular focusing on stem cell therapies in experimental models
as well as preliminary studies in patients. He went on to receive a PhD from
The University of Melbourne, Australia and completed some of these studies
at Columbia University, New York. He then moved back to the USA and completed
a fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at Johns Hopkins University School
of Medicine, Baltimore MD. At Hopkins he continued his studies into stem cell
therapeutics
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