JamesS(Bick)ForresterMD

Cardiology • Los Angeles, CA

Adult Congenital Heart Disease

Professor of Medicine, UCLA

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Office
8700 Beverly Blvd
# 415E
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Phone+1 310-423-3977

Fax+1 310-423-0106

Education & Training

Brigham and Women's HospitalFellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 1967 - 1969
Los Angeles County-Harbor-UCLA Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 1964 - 1967
Presbyterian Medical Center of the University of Pennsylvania Health SystemInternship, Transitional Year, 1963 - 1964
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaClass of 1963
Swarthmore CollegeBS, 1955 - 1959

Certifications & Licensure

CA State Medical License 1965 - 2025
American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
American Board of Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

Simon Dack Awsard for Oustanding Scholarship Journal of American College of Cardiology, 2012
Leading Physicians in the World International Association of Cardiologists, 2011
America’s Top Doctors Castle Connely Medical, 2011
2009 Lifetime Achievement Award American College of Cardiology, 2009
2007 Super Doctors of Southern California Los Angeles Magazine, 2007
International Who’s Who Strathmore, 1997
2000 Best U.S. Doctors American Heritage Publishing:, 1997
Who’s Who in the World Marquis, 1997
1996 The Best Doctors in LA Los Angeles Magazine, 1996
1996 Men of Achievement 1996
Jan Kellerman Award 1996
1996 Best Heart Doctors in America Good Housekeeping Magazine, 1996
The Best Doctors in America Woodward and White, 1993
1st Leon Goldman Award for Medical Excellence in Laser Research 1991
Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award American Heart Association, 1990
Ten Faces To Watch In Medicine in 1987 1987
1st Place American Heart Association Young Investigator Award 1986
1st Place American Society of Vascular Surgery Young Investigator 1985
Honorary Fellow Cardiology Society of Sri Lanka, 1984
Honorary Fellow Burma Medical Association, 1979
Eighth Annual Alpha Omega Alpha Honoree Univ. of Ottawa, 1978
Scientific Exhibit Award, 1st Place AHA, 1976
Fellow (FACC) American College of Cardiology
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Detection and Management of Coronary Disease in Early Middle Age
James S. Forrester, Prediman K. Shah
The American Journal of Medicine. 2020-04-25
4 citations
A Tale of Serendipity, Ingenuity, and Chance: 50th Anniversary of Creation of the Swan-Ganz Catheter.
James S. Forrester
Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2019-07-09
10 citations
Complications after transfemoral transcatheter aortic valve replacement with a balloon‐expandable prosthesis: The importance of preventative measures and contingency p...
Tarun Chakravarty, Hasan Jilaihawi, Niraj Doctor, Gregory P. Fontana, James S. Forrester
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions. 2018-04-01

Journal Articles

Cooling off hot hearts: a specific therapy for vulnerable plaque?
Vogel RA, Forrester JS, Cooling off hot hearts: a specific therapy for vulnerable plaque? J Am Coll Cardiol, 1/1/2013
Comparison of long-term outcomes of drug-eluting stents and bare metal stents for saphenous vein graft stenosis
Chakravarty T, Morrissey RP, Wertman B, Naghi J, Chou S, Goykhman P, Doctor N, Mirocha J,Forrester JS, Makkar R, Catheter Cardiovasc Interv, 5/1/2012
A novel regimen of alternate day clopidogrel would provide a cost-effective strategy to prevent very late stent thrombosis
Sharma S, Forrester JS, Med Hypotheses, 1/1/2012
KIF6 polymorphism as a predictor of risk of coronary events and of clinical event reduction by statin therapy
Li Y, Iakoubova OA, Shiffman D, Devlin JJ, Forrester JS, Superko HR, Am J Cardiol, 10/1/2010
Meta-analysis of incidence, clinical characteristics and implications of stent fracture
Chakravarty T, White AJ, Buch M, Naik H, Doctor N, Schapira J, Kar S, Forrester JS, Weiss RE, Makkar R, Am J Cardiol, 10/1/2010
Redefining normal low-density lipoprotein cholesterol: a strategy to unseat coronary disease as the nation's leading killer
Forrester JS, J Am Coll Cardiol, 8/1/2010
Meta-analysis of prognostic value of stress testing in patients with asymptomatic severe aortic stenosis
Rafique AM, Biner S, Ray I, Forrester JS, Tolstrup K, Siegel RJ, Am J Cardiol, 10/1/2009
New paradigms of myocardial regeneration post-infarction: tissue preservation, cell environment, and pluripotent cell sources
Forrester JS, White AJ, Matsushita S, Chakravarty T, Makkar RR, JACC Cardiovasc Interv, 1/1/2009
Comparison of drug-eluting stents with bare metal stents in unselected patients with acute myocardial infarction
Kupferwasser LI, Amorn AM, Kapoor N, Lee MS, Kar S, Cercek B, Dohad S, Mirocha J, Forrester JS, Shah PK, Makkar RR, Catheter Cardiovasc Interv., 1/1/2007
Stent fracture associated with drug-eluting stents: clinical characteristics and implications
Lee MS, Jurewitz D, Aragon J, Forrester J, Makkar RR, Kar S., Catheter Cardiovasc Interv, 1/1/2007
Myocardial regeneration by stem cells: seeing the unseeable
Forrester JS, Shah PK, Makkar RR, J Am Coll Cardiol, 1/1/2006
Cholestrol ester transfer protein in prevention of atherosclerosis
Forrester JS, Makkar RR, Shah PK, Circulation, 1/1/2005
Bedside cardiovascular examination using hand-carried ultrasound
Kobal SL, M.D,Trento L, Baharami S, Tolstrup K, Naqvi TZ, Cercek B, Neuman Y, Mirocha J, Saibal Kar S, Forrester JS, Siegel RJ, Am J Cardiol, 1/1/2005
Persistnece of inflammation is a cause of chronic progressive diseases
Forrester JS, Bick-Forrrester J, Med Hypotheses, 1/1/2005
Mending the broken heart
Forrester JS, Price MJ, Makkar RR, Clin Cardiol, 10/1/2003
Angiographic changes in saphenous vein grafts are predictors of clinical outcomes
Knatterud GL, White C, Geller NL, Campeau L, Forman SA, Domanski M, Forrester JS, Gobel FL, Herd JA, Hickey A, Hoogwerf BJ, Hunninghake DB, Terrin ML, Rosenberg Y and ..., Am Heart J, 1/1/2003
Prevention of plaque rupture: a new paradigm of therapy
Forrester JS, Ann Intern Med, 1/1/2002
Role of plaque rupture in acute coronary syndromes
Forrester JS, Am J Cardiol, 10/1/2000
Prevention of coronary heart disease
Forrester JS, Current Opinion in Cardiology, 1/1/2000
The Effect of Aggressive and Moderate Lowering of LDL-Cholesterol and Low Dose Anticoagulation on Plasma Lipids, Apolipoproteins and Lipoprotein Families in Post Coron...
Alaupovic P, Fesmire JD, Hunninghake D, Domanski M, Forman S, Knatterud GL, Forrester J, Gobel F, Herd AJ, Hoogwerf B, Campeau L, Atherosclerosis, 1/1/1999
Tenascin-C is expressed in macrophage-rish human coronary atherosclerotic plaque
Wallner K, LiC, Shah PK, Fishbein MC, Forrester JS, Kaul S, Sharifi BG, Circulation, 1/1/1999
The Lipoprotein Lipase Locus Contributes to Atherosclerosis Progression in Coronary Artery Bypass Grafts
Scheuner MA, Yang H, Taylor K, Li Z, Haritunians T, Gray RJ, Shah PK, Forrester JS, Rotter JI, Circulation, 1/1/1998
Lipid lowering vs revascularization: An idea whose time (for testing) has come
Forrester JS, Shah PK, Circulation, 1/1/1997
Excimer laser coronary angioplasty
Litvack F, Eigler N, Forrester JS, Science & Medicine, 1/1/1996
New standard for success of thrombolytic therapy: an earnest proposal
Forrester JS, Circulation, 1/1/1995
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