西奥多。 亚伯拉罕

Dr. 西奥多·亚伯拉罕 is a cardiologist who cares for adults with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a condition that causes heart muscle to thicken so that the heart has to work harder than it should. HCM often goes undiagnosed and is usually inherited, so 亚伯拉罕 has a particular interest in evaluating people with suspected HCM as well as family members of patients with the condition.

亚伯拉罕 employs various types of heart imaging to discern whether athletes whose hearts appear abnormal on diagnostic images have an underlying heart problem or are actually normal. He also uses strain echocardiography – a method of measuring deformed heart muscle – for early diagnosis, monitoring disease progression and predicting a variety of cardiac diseases, particularly those of the heart muscle and those affecting athletes.

亚伯拉罕 directs the UCSF Adult Cardiac Echocardiography Lab at the Parnassus campus and co-directs UCSF's HCM program, a designated center of excellence. His research on HCM focuses on risk prediction and early diagnosis.

亚伯拉罕 earned his medical degree from the University of Mumbai. He then completed a residency in internal medicine at Wake Forest School of Medicine, where he also completed a research fellowship in echocardiography. He completed additional fellowships in clinical cardiology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and advanced echocardiography at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, 明尼苏达州.

在加入UCSF之前, 亚伯拉罕 was a professor of medicine, radiology and radiological science at Johns Hopkins Medicine, where he also served as associate dean for research.

亚伯拉罕 has received numerous research grants and awards for his work. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and American Society of Echocardiography. He is a member of the American Heart Association, where he serves on its councils on clinical cardiology and basic cardiovascular sciences.

亚伯拉罕 is on the editorial boards of the Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography; Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Cardiovascular Imaging; and Circulation: Cardiovascular Imaging, a journal of the American Heart Association. He also serves as an expert on HCM for the British Medical Journal.