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Office
9898 Genesee Ave
La Jolla, CA 92037Phone+1 858-824-5333
Summary
- Dr. James Heywood is a cardiologist in La Jolla, CA and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including Naval Medical Center San Diego, Scripps Green Hospital, and Scripps Memorial Hospital-La Jolla. He received his medical degree from University of California San Diego School of Medicine and has been in practice 37 years. He specializes in adult congenital heart disease and heart failure & transplantation and is experienced in general cardiology, interventional cardiology, cardiac catheterization, transplant cardiology, and congestive heart failure.
Education & Training
- Loma Linda University Health Education ConsortiumFellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 1984 - 1987
- Scripps Mercy HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 1980 - 1984
- University of California San Diego School of MedicineClass of 1980
Certifications & Licensure
- CA State Medical License 1981 - 2025
- American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiology
- American Board of Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Regional Top Doctor Castle Connolly, 2014
- Fellow (FACC) American College of Cardiology
Clinical Trials
- Home-Based Fluid Status Monitoring in Heart Failure Patients Start of enrollment: 2018 Oct 09
- Dapagliflozin And Pulmonary Artery Hemodynamics in Heart Failure With Reduced Ejection Fraction Patients With CardioMEMS® Start of enrollment: 2020 Dec 01
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 92 citationsLower Rates of Heart Failure and All-Cause Hospitalizations During Pulmonary Artery Pressure-Guided Therapy for Ambulatory Heart Failure: One-Year Outcomes From the Ca...David M. Shavelle, Akshay S. Desai, William T. Abraham, Robert C. Bourge, Nirav Raval
Circulation. Heart Failure. 2020-08-06 - 128 citationsAmbulatory Hemodynamic Monitoring Reduces Heart Failure Hospitalizations in “Real-World” Clinical PracticeAkshay S. Desai, Arvind Bhimaraj, Rupinder Bharmi, Rita Jermyn, Kunjan Bhatt
Journal of the American College of Cardiology. 2017-05-16 - 569 citationsHigh prevalence of renal dysfunction and its impact on outcome in 118,465 patients hospitalized with acute decompensated heart failure: a report from the ADHERE database.J. Thomas Heywood, Gregg C. Fonarow, Maria Rosa Costanzo, Vandana Mathur, John R. Wigneswaran
Journal of Cardiac Failure. 2007-08-01
Press Mentions
- LVAD Keeps Mom’s Heart Going While Waiting for a TransplantFebruary 23rd, 2015
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