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Office
8010 Frost St
Suite 408
San Diego, CA 92123Phone+1 858-939-7471
Summary
- Dr. Walter Dembitsky, MD is a board certified thoracic surgeon in San Diego, California. He is currently licensed to practice medicine in California. He is affiliated with Sharp Memorial Hospital and Sharp Mary Birch Hospital for Women and Newborns.
Education & Training
- Washington University/B-JH/SLCH ConsortiumFellowship, Thoracic Surgery, 1974 - 1976
- Washington University/B-JH/SLCH ConsortiumResidency, Surgery, 1971 - 1974
- Brigham and Women's HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 1970 - 1971
- Washington University/B-JH/SLCH ConsortiumResidency, Surgery, 1969 - 1970
- University of Missouri-Columbia School of MedicineInternship, Transitional Year, 1968 - 1969
- University of Missouri-Columbia School of MedicineClass of 1968
Certifications & Licensure
- CA State Medical License 1976 - 2023
- American Board of Surgery Surgery
- American Board of Thoracic Surgery Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Super Doctor SuperDoctors.com
- Top MD Consumers Checkbook
Clinical Trials
- ABLATE Post Approval Study - Synergy Ablation Lesions for Non-Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation Start of enrollment: 2012 Sep 01
- A Clinical Trial to Evaluate the HeartWare™ Ventricular Assist System (ENDURANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TRIAL) Start of enrollment: 2013 Oct 01
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- 1 citationsBenchtop Models of Patient-Specific Intraventricular Flow During Heart Failure and LVAD Support.Vi Vu, Lorenzo Rossini, Juan C Del Alamo, Walter Dembitsky, Richard A Gray
Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. 2023-11-01 - 7 citationsNon-physiologic closing of bi-leaflet mechanical heart prostheses requires a new tri-leaflet valve design.Thierry Carrel, Walter P. Dembitsky, Bas A.J.M. de Mol, Dominik Obrist, Gilles D. Dreyfus
International Journal of Cardiology. 2020-04-01 - 55 citationsEffects of a fully magnetically levitated centrifugal-flow or axial-flow left ventricular assist device on von Willebrand factor: A prospective multicenter clinical tr...Aditya Bansal, Nir Uriel, Paolo C. Colombo, Keerthy Narisetty, James W. Long
The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 2019-08-01
Press Mentions
- Concurrent Isolation of 3 Distinct Cardiac Stem Cell Populations from a Single Human Heart BiopsyApril 26th, 2017
- Special Report: ECMO in the ED: ‘We Can't Accept 8% Anymore’August 23rd, 2016