General Information

The Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, the largest section in the Department of Medicine, offers a comprehensive cardiovascular diagnostic and treatment program by board-certified cardiologists. It also offers a cardiac rehabilitation program and a preventive cardiology program aimed at improving the functional impact of the effects of heart diseases.

Diagnoses and complex therapies are provided by specialists in cardiovascular diseases. Continuing management is through the ambulatory care cardiac and hypertension clinics. A cardiac intensive care unit is dedicated to the management of patients admitted with myocardial infarction and other severe heart diseases.

Services

Diagnostic services and therapeutic management services include cardiac catheterization, echocardiography, electrophysiology, pacemakers, radionuclear cardiology and exercise physiology .The cardiac catheterization laboratory provides the complex treatment modalities of coronary thrombolysis and coronary and peripheral angioplasty (PTCA/Stents ).

Physicians

Steven Singh, M.D. Chief
James A. Diggs, M.D., Assistant Chief
Deborah Wiliams, M.D.
Otelio S. Randall, M.D., FACC
Prafulla P. Mehrotra, M.D.
 

Location, Hours, Appointments

Division of Cardiology
Howard University Hospital
2041 Georgia Avenue, NW, Suite 6C03
Washington, DC 20060

Hours: Monday - Friday, 8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Appointments: Please call (202) 865-6791