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2557 Samaritan DrSuite 845San Jose, CA 95124
Phone+1 408-610-2001
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Summary
- Dr. Dana Weisshaar is a cardiologist in San Jose, CA. After retiring from full-time clinical practice with the Northern California Kaiser Permanente Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Program, she founded Empallo Medical Group, providing virtual cardiology and heart failure care to patients throughout the US (currently in FL, MA, ME and MI). She works one day a week in an in-person cardiology office in San Jose, CA and teaches medical students two days/week as a Professor of Medicine and Cardiology at California Northstate University College of Medicine in Elk Grove, CA.
She received her medical degree from University of Toledo College of Medicine and has been in practice 28 years. She specializes in adult heart failure & transplant medicine and is experienced in heart failure and cardiomyopathies. She has a special interest as well in Amyloid Cardiomyopathy.
Education & Training
Sutter Health/California Pacific Medical CenterFellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 1993 - 1996
University of ToledoResidency, Internal Medicine, 1989 - 1992- The University of Toledo College of MedicineClass of 1989
Certifications & Licensure
MI State Medical License 2024 - 2027
CA State Medical License 1993 - 2026
FL State Medical License 2024 - 2026
MA State Medical License 2024 - 2025
ME State Medical License 2024 - 2025
OH State Medical License 1992 - 2001
American Board of Internal Medicine Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology- American Board of Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Meaningful Use Stage 1 Certification Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, 2011
- Fellow (FACC) American College of Cardiology
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Sustainable Approach to Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Through Better Quality Measurement.Nkem Okeke, Kerrilynn C Hennessey, Amy M Sitapati, Dana Weisshaar, Nishant P Shah
Circulation. Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes. 2024-05-01 - Response to "Comments on sirolimus use and risk of cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in solid organ transplant recipients" (SOTRs).Maryam M Asgari, Sarah Arron, E Margaret Warton, Charles P Quesenberry Jr, Dana Weisshaar
Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. 2022-05-01 - 40 citationsCovid-19 in hospitalized lung and non-lung solid organ transplant recipients: a comparative analysis from a multicenter study.Madeleine R. Heldman, Olivia S Kates, Kassem Safa, Camille N. Kotton, Sarah J. Georgia
American Journal of Transplantation. 2021-05-19
Press Mentions
Dana Weisshaar, MD, FACC, a CardiologistMarch 27th, 2025- UCSF: All-Woman Transplant Team Makes HistoryFebruary 15th, 2023
- ‘This Is a First’: Why a 5-Hour Heart Transplant at UCSF Made HistoryFebruary 14th, 2023
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