CLINICAL INNOVATORS
Interview by
KATLYN NEMANI, MD
Advancing Noninvasive
Cardiac Imaging
An Interview with
Anthony DeMaria, MD
A
nthony DeMaria, MD, is the Judith and
Jack White Chair in Cardiology and founding director of the Sulpizio Cardiovascular
Center at University of California-San Diego. He
regularly participates in trials involving non-invasive methods to diagnose and treat heart disease.
Dr. DeMaria has received numerous awards and is
listed in The Best Doctors in America. He served as
a member of the Subspecialty Board on Cardiovascular Disease for the American Board of Internal
Medicine from 1991 to 1997. He is a past editorin-chief of the JACC and of Echocardiography. Dr.
DeMaria received his medical degree from the New
Jersey College of Medicine, completed his internal
medicine residency at the U.S. Public Health Service
Hospital in Staten Island, and his fellowship in cardiology at the University of California, Davis. He is
a leading expert in echocardiography and noninvasive cardiac imaging.
When did you first become interested in
becoming a cardiologist?
I first became interested in being a cardiologist
while serving in the United States Public Health
Service (P