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Laura Demopoulos

Director of the Women's Heart Program: Dr. Demopoulos

Dr. Laura A. Demopoulos, clinical associate professor of medicine in the Cardiovascular Medicine Division of the School of Medicine, has been appointed the Director of the Women's Heart Program for the Health System. She practices at Penn Medicine at Radnor.

"Dr. Demopoulos brings to Penn a practiced hand in patient care as well as extensive experience in clinical trials and patient-oriented research, and we are delighted she has agreed to serve as Director of our expanding Women's Heart Program in the Division," said Dr. Michael S. Parmacek, chief of the Cardiovascular Division.

Dr. Demopoulos, a board-certified physician in internal medicine and cardiovascular diseases, came to Penn from Merck and Co., Inc., where she was executive director of the pharmaceutical company's Cardiovascular Research Department. She has also served for the past six years as an attending physician in the Cardiology Fellows Clinic at HUP, and prior to that served as an attending physician at Albert Einstein Medical School in New York.

She earned her medical degree from NYU and completed her internship, residency, Chief Residency and fellowship at NYU Medical Center. She did research in heart failure at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York before joining Merck.

Dr. Demopoulos has held teaching positions at MIT and at NYU Medical Center and Albert Einstein. She has conducted extensive research in the field of cardiology and has contributed to more than 60 published research articles.

At Penn Medicine at Radnor, Dr. Demopoulos is building a multidisciplinary team that offers medical care designed to address the specific needs of women in treating and preventing heart disease. "Women have a different onset of symptoms and different risk factors than men, and so we are creating a program designed especially for women's cardiovascular health," Dr. Demopoulos said.

 

 


  Almanac, Vol. 50, No. 4, September 16, 2003

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