Professor, Internal Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine
Cardiology
Dr. George A. Beller, MD
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George A. Beller works in the field of Cardiology. He researched medicine at University of Virginia School of Medicine. He received awards:"Elected Member" and "Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare". Doctor George A. Beller, MD is a published physician as well. He has 101 publications published. The latest was: Noninvasive Cardiovascular Risk Assessment of the Asymptomatic DiabeticPatient: The Imaging Council of the American College of Cardiology.
Publications
- Noninvasive Cardiovascular Risk Assessment of the Asymptomatic Diabetic Patient: The Imaging Council of the American College of Cardiology.
- Choosing exercise or pharmacologic stress imaging, or exercise ECG testing alone: How to decide.
- Value of Exercise ECG for Risk Stratification in Suspected or Known CAD in the Era of Advanced Imaging Technologies.
- Ready to pass the baton.
- Is there a role for myocardial perfusion imaging in patients with an elevated high-sensitivity troponin?
- Our health system and the poorest Americans.
- Provisional use of myocardial perfusion imaging in patients undergoing exercise stress testing: A worthy concept fraught with challenges.
- Decrease in the frequency of stress-induced ischemia over the past two decades.
- More evidence for the survival benefit of coronary revascularization versus medical therapy in patients with ischemic cardiomyopathy and hibernating myocardium.
- The United States has lower life expectancy than other developed nations, despite having highest health care costs.
- Prevalence and Predictors of Ischemia and Outcomes in Outpatient Diabetic Patients Referred for SPECT Myocardial Perfusion Imaging.
- Fifty years of progress in radionuclide assessment of myocardial perfusion.
- Importance of physician-patient communication in cardiovascular care.
- Enhanced risk stratification with noninvasive measurement of coronary flow reserve using positron emission tomography.
- Quantification of myocardial blood flow with PET: Ready for clinical application.
- Quality measures and practice guidelines: Are they being embraced by cardiologists?
- Tests that may be overused or misused in cardiology: the Choosing Wisely campaign.
- Radionuclide imaging in stage B heart failure.
- Patient management after noninvasive cardiac imaging: A commentary on the reported results from SPARC.
- Sub-optimal achievement of guideline-derived lipid goals in management of diabetic patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, despite high use of evidence-b...
- Nonobstructive coronary artery disease on CT coronary angiography and abnormal coronary flow reserve: Two sides of the same coin.
- Stress myocardial perfusion imaging for assessing prognosis: an update.
- The cherished doctor-patient relationship: A personal reflection.
- Coronary Angiographic Evaluation of Low-Risk Chest Pain in the Emergency Department CT-STAT, or Maybe Not Quite That Fast?
- The prevalence and predictive accuracy of quantitatively defined transient ischemic dilation of the left ventricle on otherwise normal SPECT myocardial perfusion imagi...
- Myocardial Uptake of 7'-(Z)-[123I]Iodorotenone During Vasodilator Stress in Dogs with Critical Coronary Stenoses.
- Reducing the prevalence of inappropriate cardiac imaging tests.
- SPECT Imaging for Detecting Coronary Artery Disease and Determining Prognosis by Noninvasive Assessment of Myocardial Perfusion and Myocardial Viability.
- Imaging of vulnerable plaques: Will it affect patient management and influence outcomes?
- Advancing the research mission of ASNC.
- Noninvasive cardiovascular imaging in primary prevention: Does it influence management and outcomes?
- Implications of the forecast of cardiovascular disease in the United States in the next 20 years.
- Prognosis in patients achieving ≥10 METS on exercise stress testing: was SPECT imaging useful?
- Maximizing the clinical value of stress myocardial perfusion imaging.
- Mourning two deaths in the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology family.
- Stress testing after coronary revascularization too much, too soon.
- Chronic kidney disease and risk for coronary events: value of myocardial perfusion imaging.
- Noninvasive quantification of myocardial blood flow and coronary flow reserve.
- The case for cardiac magnetic resonance and positron emission tomography multimodality imaging of myocardial viability.
- Molecular imaging of atherosclerotic plaques targeted to oxidized LDL receptor LOX-1 by SPECT/CT and magnetic resonance.
- The cost of our aging population.
- Compliance with appropriate use criteria for cardiac radionuclide imaging.
- Decision making in multivessel coronary disease: the need for physiological lesion assessment.
- Importance of consideration of radiation doses from cardiac imaging procedures and risks of cancer.
- Will cardiac positron emission tomography ultimately replace SPECT for myocardial perfusion imaging?
- The Texas Heart Attack Prevention Bill mandating coverage for CAD screening tests.
- Noninvasive assessment of myocardial perfusion.
- Viable: yes, no, or somewhere in the middle?
- Achieving an exercise workload of > or = 10 metabolic equivalents predicts a very low risk of inducible ischemia: does myocardial perfusion imaging have a role?
- Reduction in myocardial infarct size at 48 hours after brief intravenous infusion of ATL-146e, a highly selective adenosine A2A receptor agonist.
- Implications of randomized studies of medical therapy vs revascularization for reducing rising costs of health care.
- A welcomed new myocardial perfusion imaging agent for positron emission tomography.
- Practice guidelines for cardiovascular disease: a need to expand the evidence base.
- A dilemma in teaching bedside cardiology.
- Etiology and pathophysiology of new-onset heart failure: evaluation by myocardial perfusion imaging.
- Can we enhance the detection of ischemia and better identify high risk coronary artery disease by imaging of myocardial metabolism?
- Timing of adenosine 2A receptor stimulation relative to reperfusion has differential effects on infarct size and cardiac function as assessed in mice by MRI.
- Industry relationships with physicians under scrutiny.
- Cardiovascular molecular imaging: where art thou?
- The rising cost of health care in the United States: is it making the United States globally noncompetitive?
- The multimodality imager: reality or fantasy?
- Assessment of new technologies: surrogate endpoints versus outcomes, and the cost of health care.
- Underestimation of coronary artery disease with SPECT perfusion imaging.
- What can be learned from the COURAGE trial?
- Cardiac imaging: value, cost, and appropriateness.
- Michael Moore's Sicko: a critique of the US health care system.
- Quantitative nuclear cardiology and future directions for SPECT imaging.
- Cardioprotection by adenosine A2A agonists in a canine model of myocardial stunning produced by multiple episodes of transient ischemia.
- Noninvasive screening for coronary atherosclerosis and silent ischemia in asymptomatic type 2 diabetic patients: is it appropriate and cost-effective?
- CT angiography: too much too soon?
- Can we enhance quality in nuclear cardiology?
- Organ biodistribution and myocardial uptake, washout, and redistribution kinetics of Tc-99m N-DBODC5 when injected during vasodilator stress in canine models of corona...
- Two alarming recent statistics: the increase in the uninsured and the increased prediction of the number of persons living with diabetes.
- A proposal for an advanced cardiovascular imaging training track.
- Prognostic role of single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging in myocardial viability.
- Nuclear cardiology: where are we and where are we going?
- Reduction in industry support for academic research: implications for assessment of cardiovascular imaging technologies.
- Fractional flow reserve of infarct-related arteries identifies reversible defects on noninvasive myocardial perfusion imaging early after myocardial infarction.
- Edvard Munch's renditions of illness and dying: their message to contemporary physicians.
- Consequences of being medically uninsured.
- ACCF 2006 Update for Training in Adult Cardiovascular Medicine (Focused Update of the 2002 COCATS 2 Training Statement): A Report of the American College of Cardiology...
- The status of nuclear cardiology today.
- Disparities in health care in racial and ethnic minorities.
- New technology and the cost of health care.
- Fraud in medicine.
- Reduction of infarct size and postischemic inflammation from ATL-146e, a highly selective adenosine A2A receptor agonist, in reperfused canine myocardium.
- Where high-tech medicine was irrelevant.
- Lessons to be learned from the Vioxx debacle.
- 99mTc-N-DBODC5, a new myocardial perfusion imaging agent with rapid liver clearance: comparison with 99mTc-sestamibi and 99mTc-tetrofosmin in rats.
- Cardiology, and hence nuclear cardiology, failing to attract women.
- Task force 6: Code of conduct for staff and volunteer leadership.
- Electromechanical mapping identifies improvement in function and retention of contractile reserve after revascularization in ischemic cardiomyopathy.
- Call for a mandatory national clinical trials registry.
- Working group 4: International medical graduates and the cardiology workforce.
- Cardiovascular molecular imaging: a multidisciplinary effort.
- Nuclear cardiology in randomized multicenter clinical trials.
- The epidemics of obesity and type 2 diabetes: implications for noninvasive cardiovascular imaging.
- Comparison of the predictive value of exercise-induced ST depression versus exercise technetium-99m sestamibi single-photon emission computed tomographic imaging for d...
- Risk stratification using stress myocardial perfusion imaging: don't neglect the value of clinical variables.
- Myocardial perfusion imaging agents: SPECT and PET.
Schools
Virginia Commonwealth University School Of Medicine
Wisc Hosps
Boston City Hospital
Massachusetts General Hospital
Procedures Preformed
- Ablation for Treatment of Cardiac Arrhythmias
- Cardiac Catheterization (incl. Coronary Angiography)
- Cardiac Imaging
- Cardiac Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
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Doctors Specialties
- Cardiology
- Internal Medicine
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Elected Member
- Whos Who in Medicine and Healthcare
Education
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Massachusetts General Hospital -
Boston University Medical Center -
University of Wisconsin -
University of Virginia School of Medicine
Hospital
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University of Virginia Medical Center
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| National Provider Identifier [NPI] | 1962565960 |
| Last Name Of The Provider | BELLER |
| First Name Of The Provider | GEORGE |
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