Dr. Nelson B. Schiller, MD, FACC | UCSF |
Dr. Schiller is the John J. Sampson-Lucie Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Radiology, and Anesthesia at the University of California, San Francisco, and Director of Echocardiography Research at the Veterans Administration Hospital, San Francisco. He completed his Medical Degree at the State University of New York at Buffalo, Residency at University of California at San Diego, and Cardiology Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco.
He is one of the founders of the modern field of echocardiography, and an outstanding Teacher and Mentor to over 70 Post Doctoral Trainees. He has served in a Leadership Position or Committee Chair in several Cardiological Organizations including Program Director, ACC Heart House Learning Center, Board Member and ASE Physician Representative, Cardiovascular Credentialing International, Associate Editor, Journal of Cardiac Failure, and as Associate Editor, Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
He is interested in the many applications of echocardiography and Doppler techniques in clinical cardiology. His research interests center around the quantitation of left ventricular function by quantitative two-dimensional echocardiography and Doppler. Dr. Schiller has been instrumental in the evolution and development of transesophageal echocardiography, and the development of the transponder catheter and intravascular imaging for electrophysiological applications, and has played a key role as an investigator in several key studies in myocardial perfusion echocardiography, as well as the NIH funded Heart and Soul Study. He has authored almost three hundred publications in the field of Cardiology, including such diverse fields as adult congenital heart disease, three-dimensional reconstruction, echocardiographic contrast agents, transesophageal echocardiography in clinical care, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, coronary blood flow, exercise hemodynamics, and heart disease in women and aging. Amongst his many achievements includes the first publication on guidelines for quantitation of left ventricular function.