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UIC Section of Cardiology

Clinical Care

Heart Center: Center of Excellence in Women's Health

At the University of Illinois at Chicago's National Center of Excellence in Women's Health our mission is to develop a comprehensive program addressing cardiac health throughout the entire lifespan of our women patients. Our specialists provide personalized, high quality cutting age care addressing the more difficult diagnosis, treatment and prevention of heart disease in women. Thanks to our integral relationship with UIC's National Center of Excellence in Women's Health and the UIC department of Maternal Fetal Medicine we are able to address the full range of the unique aspects of women's cardiovascular disease including:

Diagnosis, prevention and treatment of Coronary Artery Disease in Women Microvascular Angina. Alternative therapy for prevention and treatment of heart disease in women.
Rheumatic and Congenital Heart Disease Diagnosis.
Treatment of pregnant women with heart disease including arrhythmias, congenital heart disease and coronary artery disease or heart failure.
Hypertension in pregnancy and pre-eclampsia  
Genetic Counselling for pregnant women with heart disease
Diagnosis and treatment of fetal arrhythmias.

In addition to providing state of the art medical care our experts have extensive research experience in physical activity and other lifestyle interventions to reduce cardiovascular risk
Electron beam scanning in the diagnosis of cardiovascular disease
Outcomes in women with pregnancy and heart disease
Gender differences in cardiovascular outcomes
New AHA/ACC guidelines for diagnosis and therapy of women with cardiovascular disease.
Peripartum cardiomyopathy.

Faculty

Joan Briller, MD FACC, FASE Director, Cardiovascular Program for Women;
Director, Treadmill Exercise Laboratory
Eva Chomka, MD FACC, FASE

Adjunct Faculty

Isabelle Wilkins, MD Director Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Director High Risk Obstetric clinics;
Judith Hibbard, MD Professor Division of Maternal Fetal Medicine, Co-Director Perinatal Center;
Sarah Kilpatrick, MD Professor and Head department of Obstetrics and Gynecology;
Jennifer Ahn, M.D. Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Director Diabetes in Pregnancy Program;
Gary Loy, MD,MPH, FACOG, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Director of Fetal Ultrasound: fetal arrhythmia, diagnosis of congenital heart disease in the fetus and fetal cardiac dysfunction;
Bettina Cuneo, MD Lecturer in Pediatrics, Fetal Echocardiography and arrhythmias;
Stacie Gellar, PHD, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Director UIC Center for Research on Women and Gender, Director National Center of Excellence in Women's Health.

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