Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
The Scripps Clinic Medical Group Division of Cardiovascular Diseases provides advanced inpatient and outpatient cardiology care across the spectrum of heart failure, interventional cardiology, electrophysiology, cardio-oncology, cardiac amyloidosis, and integrative cardiology. Our Division combines scientific research, clinical trials, advanced medical technologies and expertise to provide the most forward-thinking cardiac care in Southern California, leading and staffing renowned cardiology programs and clinics. Our accomplished cardiologists offer a variety of diagnostics and monitoring services, and the most complex heart procedures in the country. Our Division is known for providing both high-tech and high touch care, conducting successful procedures with low complication rates and observing the best practices and quality metrics that make the difference in improving outcomes.
With deep, extremely specialized expertise, our cardiologists are leaders in the diagnosis and management of a vast array of common and rare heart conditions. The interventional cardiology program is one of the largest in the country, performing high volume procedures with an emphasis on leading edge, minimally invasive techniques. Our Division also includes world class physician expertise in management of arrhythmia, congenital heart disease, heart failure, heart transplantation, diagnostic imaging, lipid disorders, and women’s health. Our cardio-oncologists are directly affiliated with Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center, with a focus on treating cardiac complications of cancer treatment, from pre-evaluation to ongoing surveillance of those deemed to be at risk.
Cardiology Subdivisions
Featured Services
Complex ablations for atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia and SVT (supra-ventricular tachycardia)
Intra-cardiac device implantation (Pacemakers/Defibrillators)
Coronary stenting
Coronary atherectomy
Coronary brachytherapy
Supported PCI
Peripheral vascular intervention including complex procedures for limb salvage
Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)
Transcatheter mitral valve repair and replacement
Transcatheter tricuspid valve repair
Transcatheter pulmonic valve interventions
Transcatheter atrial and ventricular septal closure
Transcatheter left (and right) ventricular assist devices
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)
Transcatheter patent foramen ovale closure Left Atrial appendage Closure
Coronary angiogenesis
Cardiac gene therapy
Surgical and transcatheter mitral, tricuspid, and aortic valve replacement and repair
Surgical left and right ventricular assist devices (VADs)
Coronary CT angiography
Cardiac MRI (Structural, 4D-Flow and T1 mapping)
Cardiac 3D – Structural
Recognitions & Awards
Scripps Clinic physicians (Drs. Topol and Teirstein) edit the seminal textbook in Interventional Cardiology, now in its 8th edition, as well as editing Interventional Cardiology Clinics (Dr. Price), the quarterly journal read by cardiologists around the world.
Dr. Price has is a steering committee for the National Cardiovascular Data Registry for Left Atrial Appendage Occlusion (NCDR LAAO), and is two-time recipient of the Scripps Clinic Chairman’s Award for Research in Medicine, most recently in 2018
Dr. Schatz is the winner of the Russ Prize for BioMedical Engineering 2019, and was included in the Smithsonian Museum of American History’s “Inventing in America” display
Dr. Stinis has been named a Top 10 Cardiologist in San Diego County and received a Patient’s Choice Award from Vitals.com. He has been listed as a Top Doctor by Castle Connolly, a Top Cardiologist by Consumers Research Council of America, and is the recipient of a Next Generation Innovator Award by Cardiology Today.
Dr. Teirstein has been listed in San Diego Top Doctors, Best Doctors in America, and is the recipient of the Edward Robb Ricketts Award for outstanding contribution to cardiovascular medicine, American Heart Association awards, TCT Master Clinical Operator award and Master of the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Interventions award.
Dr. Heywood has been named one of San Diego’s Top Cardiologists and was formerly the director of the Cardiac Transplant Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center
Dr. Mohan has received Fellow Teacher of the Year award from Scripps Clinic
Dr. Srivastava has received a Teacher of the Year award from Scripps Clinic and a number of awards from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and the International Society of Heart and Lung Transplantation
Dr. Uddin has received the Fellow Teacher of the Year award from Scripps Clinic
Dr Cork was voted Top Doctors (San Diego Magazine) for the years 2017-2019
Dr Rubenson was voted Top Doctors in San Diego Magazine from 2011 -2018. He received the Educator of the Year from the California Chapter, American College of Cardiology in 2018. He also received the Cardiology Fellowship, Best Teacher Award in 2018.
Dr. Romero received four Navy and Marine Corps Commendation medals during his time in the US Navy for his work as Echo Director at the Naval Medical Center San Diego, humanitarian medicine work in Southeast Asia, and volunteering locally as the medical director of the San Diego Society of Echocardiography.