Dr. Dawn Lombardo developed program to help patients with moderate to severe heart failure
December 01, 2012
Dr. Dawn Lombardo joined UC Irvine Medical Center to initiate its Heart Failure
Program. She developed the program and assembled a dedicated and highly experienced
team including heart failure and electrophysiology specialists and talented
cardiothoracic surgeons from UC Irvine University Physicians & Surgeons.
The clinical, research and educational expertise at UC Irvine Medical Center
enables the Heart Failure Program to meet the complex needs of patients with
moderate to severe heart failure. The program’s goal is to work with
community and university hospital physicians to provide comprehensive inpatient and
outpatient care, utilizing the most current and best evidence-based medicines,
devices, surgical therapies and technology. The program is dedicated to the
development of new heart failure treatment approaches through a large, active
research program.
Lombardo earned her medical degree from the Chicago College of Osteopathic
Medicine. Her residency in internal medicine was served at Chicago’s
Northwestern Evanston Hospital, followed by a cardiology fellowship at
University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago. Subsequently, she
completed a postdoctoral fellowship in heart failure and cardiac transplantation
at University of California, San Diego. She has participated in multiple
multicenter clinical trials involving medical and device treatments for patients
with heart failure. Her research interests center on new forms of heart
failure therapy and on women with heart disease.
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