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Hector O Ventura

Biography

Hector O. Ventura, MD, is the Assistant DIO, Graduate Medical Education Committee and the Section Head, Cardiomyopathy and Heart Transplant Center at the Ochsner Clinic Foundation, New Orleans, Louisiana. He is also a Professor, Cardiology, University of Queensland School of Medicine, Ochsner Clinical School, Brisbane, Australia as well as a Professor of Medicine at the Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans. He completed an internship and residency at the Central Military Hospital in Buenos Aires, followed by research fellowships in arterial hypertension and cardiovascular diseases, an internship, and an internal medicine residency at the Ochsner Medical Institutions in New Orleans.

Research Interest

Arterial hypertension following cardiac transplantation, the effect of digitalis on mortality in heart failure, Lipid profiles after cardiac transplantation.