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Department of Internal Medicine

Clinical Programs

The Division is responsible for academic and clinical activities pertaining to cardiovascular medicine on both the Davis campus and at UC Davis Medical Center. At the hospital, the division oversees clinical activities in the coronary intensive care unit / in-patient service, cardiac catheterization and electrophysiology laboratories, heart station, echocardiography laboratories, stress test laboratories, and cardiovascular rehabilitation and atherosclerosis regression programs.

Ambulatory clinics in the area of general cardiology, private cardiology, congestive heart failure, electrophysiology and pacemaker, interventional, risk reduction, women's cardiovascular health, and adult congenital heart disease/primary pulmonary hypertension are administered and staffed by the division.

In addition to these programs for which the division assumes primary administrative responsibility, the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, in conjunction with the Division of Emergency Medicine, oversees the chest pain emergency room service and the short stay in-patient service for rapid triage assessment and treatment of patients with chest pain and other cardiovascular diseases requiring brief admission to the hospital.