Work Sites

Hospitals/Facilities

VA Medical Center

The VA Western New York Medical Center is a tertiary cardiac care center providing cardiac services to Veterans from Western and Central New York. A team of seven cardiologists provides the full spectrum of diagnostic and therapeutic modalities, including echocardiograms (TEE), nuclear stress tests, cardiac CT, angiograms including complex coronary interventions and cardiac electrophysiology. The VA hospital is the regional referral center for cardiac surgery for VISN 2.

Buffalo General Hospital

The clinical cardiology services at the Buffalo General Hospital is supported by 11 faculty members. In addition to the clinical education of residents in Internal Medicine and fellows in Cardiovascular Diseases, clinical care is provided in non-invasive imaging, interventional cardiology, nuclear cardiology, consultative cardiology and staffing the coronary care unit. Outpatient services include all aspects of general cardiology with specialized centers focusing on the care of patients with heart failure and pulmonary hypertension.

UB Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC) at the Buffalo-Niagara Medical Campus

The Cardiovascular Division will be transitioning all of their investigational programs and laboratories to the new UB Clinical and Translational Research Center (CTRC) in early 2012. This four floor facility is immediately above the new Heart and Vascular Institute which will provide state-of-the-art cardiovascular care to the Western New York community. The CTRC includes laboratories to pursue preclinical research, an incubator for technology transfer and a clinical research center to pursue patient-oriented investigation. The cardiovascular research center includes state-of-the art imaging facilities to pursue translational molecular imaging using PET, CT and MRI with a major focus on cardiovascular applications. The molecular imaging program will be supported by a cyclotron. The unique apposition of bench investigation and clinical care in the same facility will greatly enhance the capability of the Division to expand on their success in pursuing cutting edge translational cardiovascular investigation.

Current research programs focus on

• Identifying the intrinsic adaptive responses of the heart that arise from repetitive ischemia and result in viable, chronically dysfunctional or “hibernating” myocardium.
• Understanding the mechanisms responsible for effecting intrinsic cardiac repair with resident adult stem cell populations residing in the bone marrow and heart.
• Understanding how chronic ischemia and cellular remodeling predisposes to the development of sudden cardiac arrest from ventricular fibrillation.
• Translation of preclinical findings in the laboratory to the care and treatment of patients with heart disease.

UB/MD Cardiology

UB/MD Cardiology is the outpatient practice plan for University heart physicians. Eleven cardiologists provide outpatient consultation and non-invasive services, which include stress testing (treadmill and pharmacologic), nuclear stress imaging, echocardiography, Holter monitoring and cardiac event monitoring.