Professor of Medicine
Director of Interventional Cardiology
Co-Director, Adult Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory

UCSF Medical Center
Division of Cardiology
Long Hospital, Suite L523
505 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0103

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
• Residency: University of Chicago Hospital, Internal Medicine 1976
• Fellowship: UCSF Medical Center, Cardiology 1978
• Certifications:
• Cardiology 1979
• Interventional Cardiology 1999