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Evaluation of Chest Pain | April 17, 2023

Date of Presentation: April 17, 2023

Type: Past Presentation  

Audience: Clinical  

Program: Cardiology  

Keywords: #angina  #cardiac  #Chest pain  #heart  

In this series of presentations, CAPT Dena Wilson, MD, FACC, cardiologist and Chief Medical Officer for the Phoenix Area IHS, provides a welcome to the inaugural Cardiology ECHO program. Then, Dr. Leon Ptaszek, MD, PhD, cardiologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Associate Physician on the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital, provides an ECG review, discusses the causes of chest pain, describes how to utilize a risk factor-based strategy to evaluate chest pain, and reviews patients who require tertiary care.

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CAPT Dena Wilson, MD, FACC | Dr. Leon Ptaszek, MD, PhD

CAPT Dena Wilson, MD, FACC, is a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe from the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Dena received her medical degree from the University of Washington in 2003. She completed both her internal medicine residency and cardiovascular fellowship at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. Dena is board certified in cardiovascular disease and began her career as a staff cardiologist with the Native American Cardiology Program based out of the University Medical Center in Tucson.  In 2010, she transitioned the Native American Cardiology Program to Flagstaff Medical Center to provide services to the underserved population of rural Northern Arizona. In 2015, Dr. Wilson transferred to the Phoenix Indian Medical Center, where she began a cardiovascular service line and worked as a full-time cardiologist. In 2017, she accepted the role as the Clinical Consultant for the Division of Diabetes Treatment and Prevention and in 2018 rejoined PIMC as the Director of Specialty Services.  Dena is currently the Chief Medical Officer for the Phoenix Area overseeing 4 hospitals, 3 outpatient clinics and a Youth Regional Treatment Center throughout AZ, UT, and NV.

Leon Ptaszek, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and is an Associate Physician on the Cardiac Arrhythmia Service at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Leon received his degrees from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine at NYU in 2003. He completed a residency program in Internal Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine in 2005 and then completed clinical and research fellowships in Cardiovascular Diseases and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 2011. In addition, he holds two patents and is the author of over 60 original scientific publications, reviews, and book chapters and is also involved in international health outreach efforts including establishing a virtual cardiology lecture series at the King Faisal Hospital in Rwanda and at the Uganda Heart Institute.

Leon received the Franklin G. Ebaugh, Jr. Award for research and the Award for Professionalism from the Stanford University School of Medicine in 2005. He received the Clinician-Scientist Award from the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and was named the de Gunzburg Scholar at MGH in 2011. Leon became a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology in 2013 and became a Fellow of the Heart Rhythm Society in 2018. He also received a Pioneer Award for management of SVT from the Arrhythmia Alliance in 2021.

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Date added: April 13, 2023