Top Specialists in Heart Transplantation

PALO ALTO, Calif. - Dec. 9, 2013 - PRLog -- As part of its ongoing program to highlight excellence in healthcare, Expertscape.com is especially pleased to announce its ranking of the top institutions and individual specialists in the very demanding field of heart transplantation. First performed in South Africa in 1967, an estimated 3,500 heart transplants are now performed yearly, most of them in the United States. Heart recipients have since gone on to climb the Matterhorn, complete an Ironman triathlon, and qualify for the PGA Tour.  Former Vice President Dick Cheney received a heart transplant in 2012.

Expertscape.com honors these eight individual experts and institutions (http://www.expertscape.com/leaders/heart-transplantation) for demonstrating the greatest expertise and knowledge in the field of heart transplantation research and treatment:


     Worlds's Leading Experts – Heart Transplantation
     1.     Dr. Jon Kobashigawa - Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute - Los Angeles, CA
     2.     Dr. Mandeep Mehra - Brigham and Women's Hospital - Boston, MA
     3.     Dr. Howard Eisen - Drexel University - Philadelphia
     4.     Dr. Randall Starling - Cleveland Clinic - Ohio
     5.     Dr. Donna Mancini - Columbia University - New York, NY
     6.     Dr. Leslie Miller - University of South Florida - Tampa, FL
     7.     Dr. James Kirklin - University of Alabama, Birmingham
     8.     Dr. Heather Ross - University of Toronto - Canada

     World's Leading Institutions – Heart Transplantation
     1.     Columbia University - New York, NY
     2.     Stanford University - Palo Alto, CA
     3.     UCLA - Los Angeles, CA
     4.     University of Toronto - Canada
     5.     University of Pittsburgh - Pennsylvania
     6.     Cleveland Clinic - Ohio
     7.     University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia
     8.     Brigham and Women's Hospital - Boston, MA

To view Expertscape’s comprehensive results for heart transplantation, covering hundreds of institutions and thousands of specialists worldwide, visit http://expertscape.com/ex/heart-transplantation

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