Jessica Barton

  The cardiology team at UF Health Heart and Vascular Hospital is celebrating…

Atrial fibrillation, or AFib, is a serious but treatable heart condition. Some people are symptom-free and other have palpitations, fluttering or a pounding feeling in their chest. Learn about the steps you need to take to manage AFib.   Hear from Zubin Agarwal, M.D., M.P.H. from UF Health Cardiology during…

Tequila Wilson was watching the news around Thanksgiving when a story highlighting families in need caught her eye. UF Health Shands Transplant Center’s “Santa committee” went Christmas shopping for 16 local families in need. Wilson, a transplant assistant with the UF Health Shands Transplant Center, recalls a…

A new assessment tool can predict users’ 10-year risk of heart attack or stroke with just a few patient-inputted responses, no lab tests required. Developed by University of Florida researchers, the EZ-CVD calculates a person’s risk score based on six questions on sex, age, current smoking status,…

Colleagues, I want to congratulate our faculty members for the multiple publications coming out of the division. See below: Keeley EC, Villanueva M, Chen YE, Gong Y, Handberg EM, Smith SM, Pepine CJ, Cooper-DeHoff RM. Attended vs unattended systolic blood pressure measurement: A randomized comparison in patients with cardiovascular disease. J Clin Hypertens.

On August 22, 2020 the Florida Heart Research Association named Ki Park, MD as the “Stop Heart Disease” Researcher of the Year at the virtual annual meeting of the Florida Chapter of the American College of Cardiology. Dr. Park is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine and an Interventional…

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In the last decade, myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) with PET has emerged to play a pivotal role in the clinical routine process for the detection of hemodynamically significant obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD) and cardiovascular risk stratification (1–5). The high spatial and contrast resolution in concert with photon…

A new editorial about the Malnutrition in the Obese, Commonly Overlooked But With Serious Consequences by Monica Aggarwal, MD has been published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Malnutrition is defined as “faulty nutrition due to inadequate or unbalanced intake of nutrients or their impaired assimilation…

Gurjaspreet K. Bhattal M.D.,a Ki E. Park, M.D.,a,b David E.Winchester M.D., M.S.a,b aUniversity of Florida Health, bMalcom Randall Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center (North Florida South Georgia VAMC)   Funding: This material is the result of work supported with resources and the use of facilities at the Malcom Randall…

We would like to congratulate Dr. Alex Parker and Dr. Mustafa Ahmed for their manuscripts that were recently accepted for publication: “Leadless Pacemaker Use in a Patient with a Durable Left Ventricular Assist Device” First author: Alex Parker (this is his first publication…