Coronary artery disease (CAD)is the number one killer in America. Treatment of CAD is aimed at controlling symptoms and slowing or stopping the progression of disease. An interventional procedure is a non-surgical treatment used to open narrowed coronary arteries to improve blood flow to the heart, used when simpler methods of treatment are not effective. Dr. Ellis, a Cleveland Clinic cardiologist will provide answers to your questions about the treatment of CAD and interventional procedures during a free online chat.
Stephen Ellis, MD is the Section Head of Invasive/Interventional Cardiology and Director of the Sones Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory in the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Heart and Vascular Institute. He also is co-director of the Cardiovascular Genebank and primary and co-investigator in several stem cell trials.
Board-certified in internal medicine and interventional cardiology, Dr. Ellis is a member of the American Heart Association's Scientific Council on Arteriosclerosis and Scientific Council on Clinical Cardiology, the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions and the American College of Cardiology. He also serves on the editorial boards for numerous publications, including the American Journal of Cardiology, the Journal of Interventional Cardiology, Circulation and the American Heart Journal. Dr. Ellis has authored and co-authored more than 700 papers on interventional cardiology and cardiovascular disease for scientific journals including the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, Coronary Artery Disease, Circulation and the New England Journal of Medicine.
His principal clinical interests are complex coronary interventions, novel treatments for inoperable patients and studies to better understand the basis of disease.
This Health Chat will open on
Thursday, December 17, 2009
to allow you to submit questions. We will try to answer as many questions as possible during the chat. Please create an account to attend the chat and submit your questions.