The UW Medicine Regional Heart Center encompasses cardiology, cardiac surgery, cardiac anesthesia, vascular surgery, and vascular basic science. We are located in three convenient locations: UW Medical Center, Haborview Medical Center, and the UW Medicine Eastside Specialty Center.
Making a Referral
Online referral website for health-care providers referring patients to the Regional Heart Center.
Or call 1-866-UW-HEART to make a referral to the UW Regional Heart Center or at the individual numbers listed below:
- Cardiac Diagnostic Services 206-598-4300 (Adult Congenital Heart Disease Clinic, Arrhythmia/Electrophysiology Service Clinic, Cardiology Clinic), Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. After hours/weekends/holidays: Call MEDCON at 1-800-326-5300 and ask for the cardiology attending on call.
- Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory 206-598-3400 Kim Baird, patient care coordinator; Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; after hours/weekends/holidays: Call MEDCON at 1-800-326-5300 and ask for the PTCA attending on call.
- Cardiothoracic Surgery 206-598-3636, Irina Kalinkovich, Cardiac patient care coordinator; 206-598-1980, Twila Hoffman, Thoracic patient care coordinator; Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., or UW Medical Center paging, 206-598-6190; after hours/weekends/holidays: Call MEDCON at 1-800-326-5300 and ask for the cardiothoracic surgery fellow on call.
- Echocardiogram appointments 206-598-7000, Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- Heart Failure/Transplant appointments 206-598-0190, Deci Taylor, patient care coordinator; Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Or call MEDCON at 1-800-326-5300 and ask for the transplant cardiologist on call.
RHC Services
In 2000, the UW created the UW Medicine Regional Heart Center for the purpose of improving access to cardiac and vascular services. Our faculty physicians are internationally recognized for their expertise in:
- Adult congenital heart disease
- Advanced heart failure
- Arrhythmia
- Cardiac catheterization and intervention
- Cardiothoracic surgery
- Cardiovascular anesthesia services with intraoperative transesophageal echo
Cardiac heart failure services include:
- Complex cardiomyopathy evaluation and management
- Support devices (LVAD)
- Biventricular pacing
Electro-physiology services include:
- Biosense mapping
- Implantible pacemakers and cardiodefibrilators
- Ablation.
Echo services include:
- Transesophegeal echo (TEE)
- Dobutamine stress echo (DSE)
CT minimally invasive surgery services include:
- MV repair
- Stentless valves
- Ross procedure
- Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
- Cardiothoracic Surgery
Clinic Providers
For professional information on clinic providers, please view the
UW School of Medicine’s Department of Surgery website and the
Division of Cardiology website. You may also call the UW Cardiology academic office at 206-543-8584, or the UW Cardiothoracic Surgery academic office at 206-543-3093.
Cardiology Faculty General Cardiology - UW Medical Center
- David Dichek, M.D.
- Rosario Freeman, M.D.
- Robert E. Ingham, M.D.
- Werner E. Samson, M.D.
- B. Fendley Stewart, M.D.
General Cardiology - Harborview Medical Center
- Arnold Baas, M.D.
- Marshall Corson, M.D.
- Edward A. Gill, M.D.
- Stephen Hubbard, M.D.
- Francis Kim, M.D.
- Eben E. Tucker, M.D.
Electrophysiology
- Peter J. Kudenchuk, M.D.
- Richard L. Page, M.D.
- Jeanne E. Poole, M.D.
- Robert W. Rho, M.D.
Heart Failure/Transplant
- Carol Buchter, M.D.
- Daniel Fishbein, M.D.
- Wayne C. Levy, M.D.
- Elina Minami, M.D.
- Kevin O'Brien, M.D.
- April Stempien-Otero, M.D.
Echo, Valvular & Adult Congenital
- David T. Linker, M.D.
- Catherine Otto, M.D.
- Alan S. Pearlman, M.D.
- Karen Stout, M.D.
Interventional
- Larry Dean, M.D.
- Steven L. Goldberg, M.D.
- Douglas K. Stewart, M.D.
- Eben E. Tucker, M.D.
Cardiac Surgery Faculty
- Gabriel Aldea, M.D.
- William T. Caine, M.D.
- Robert Christopher King, M.D.
- Donald W. Miller, Jr., M.D.
- Christopher T. Salerno, M.D.
- Edward Verrier, M.D.
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