Raj Janardhanan, MD, is the next speaker in the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center Green Valley Lecture Series, Thursday, Feb. 15, at 10 a.m. An associate professor of medicine and medical imaging at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, he will discuss “Tour of the Heart: How Advances in Imaging Improve Diagnostics and Guide Treatments,” covering diagnostic tools, such as 3-D echocardiography, coronary CT scans, cardiac MRIs and other imaging advances that provide cardiologists with powerful images of the heart that help identify heart disorders and enable the patient-care team to plan the best course of treatment.
The lecture series is free and open to the public, and includes time for questions and answers.
The UA Sarver Heart Center Green Valley Lecture Series is offered in cooperation with Green Valley Recreation, Inc. The lecture will be at Canoa Hills Social Center, 3660 S. Camino del Sol, Green Valley. No reservation is required; refreshments are provided.
For more information about the UA Sarver Heart Center, please visit www.heart.arizona.edu.
Upcoming Green Valley Lecture:
- March 15 – “New Interventional Procedures for Heart Disease,” Tom A. Lassar, MD, professor of medicine, UA Sarver Heart Center.
The University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center’s 150 members include faculty members from cardiology, cardiothoracic surgery, pediatric cardiology, neurology, vascular surgery, radiology, endocrinology, emergency medicine, nursing, pharmacy and basic sciences. The UA Sarver Heart Center emphasizes a highly collaborative research environment, fostering innovative translational or “bench-to-bedside” research and working toward a future free of heart disease and stroke. If you would like to give permission for Sarver Heart Center to contact you about heart research studies, please complete a Cardiology Research Registry Information Form. The academic mission of the Sarver Heart Center encompasses for fellowship programs in cardiovascular disease, interventional cardiology, advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology, and electrophysiology.