Tom A. Lassar, MD, professor of medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, will discuss New Interventional Procedures for Heart Disease, the last offering in this season’s University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center Green Valley Lecture Series, Thursday, March 15, at 10 a.m.
The lecture will take place at Canoa Hills Social Center, 3660 S. Camino del Sol, Green Valley. No reservation is required; refreshments are provided.
Interventional cardiology is a rapidly advancing field, offering patients more sophisticated, improved, less painful and less invasive treatments for coronary and valvular heart disease, as well as shorter hospital stays.
The talk will focus on some of the recent highlights.
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. For more information about the UA Sarver Heart Center, please visit www.heart.arizona.edu.
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 four fellowship programs in cardiovascular disease, interventional cardiology, advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology, and electrophysiology.