Genetic Heart Disorders

Our Experts

The UCSF Program in Cardiovascular Genetics is a team of health care providers with expertise in genetics, cardiology, and other related medical specialties. Members of the team come from several different UCSF departments and specialties, including: the UCSF Division of Medical Genetics, the UCSF Cardiac Electrophysiology and Arrhythmia Service, the UCSF Heart Failure and Transplant Unit, the Adult Congenital Heart Defect Clinic, the UCSF Spine Center and the UCSF Comprehensive Eye Center.

Doctors

• Dr. Anthony Azakie, surgical director of Pediatric Heart Center

• Dr. Nitish Badhwar, cardiologist and electrophysiologist

• Dr. Kanu Chatterjee, cardiologist

• Dr. Teresa De Marco, director of heart transplantation

• Dr. Elyse Foster, director of adult Echocardiography and Congenital Heart Disease

• Dr. Charles W. Hoopes, director of heart and lung transplants

• Dr. Serena S. Hu, orthopedic surgeon

• Dr. Randall James Lee, cardiologist and electrophysiologist

• Dr. Byron K. Lee, Cardiologist and electrophysiologist

• Dr. Gregory M. Marcus, cardiologist and electrophysiologist

• Dr. Dana P McGlothlin, cardiologist

• Dr. Alison K Meadows, pediatric cardiologist

• Dr. Scot H. Merrick, cardiothoracic surgeon

• Dr. Phillip Moore, director, Pediatric Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory

• Dr. Robert L. Nussbaum, medical geneticist

• Dr. Jeffrey E. Olgin, chief cardiologist of Electrophysiology

• Dr. Thomas Ports, director of Interventional Cardiology

• Dr. J. Eduardo Rame, cardiologist

• Dr. Melvin Scheinman, Cardiologist and electrophysiologist

• Dr. Nelson B. Schiller, cardiologist

• Dr. Zian H. Tseng, cardiologist and electrophysiologist

• Dr. Yerem Yeghiazarians, director of the Cardiac Translational Stem Cell Program

Other Experts

Colleen Brown, a genetic counselor and clinical coordinator of the Program in Cardiovascular Genetics at UCSF Medical Center, is an expert in familial cardiovascular disease. Brown provides genetic counseling to patients with heart conditions and helps them to determine if their disease is genetic and who else in their family is at risk of developing the condition. She also helps families cope with their diagnoses of a genetic heart condition and adjust to the related personal, emotional and family implications.

Brown received her graduate degree in genetic counseling at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health in Baltimore, MD and the National Human Genome Research Institute at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD.

Ashley Montross works in the Program in Cardiovascular Genetics as a genetic counseling assistant. She is the primary contact for coordinating patients appointments. She worked as a clinic manager for Clinica Tepati, a free clinic serving those without health insurance in the Sacramento area. Ashley Montross graduated in 2007 from University of California, Davis with a bachelors of Science degree in Neurobiology, Physiology, and Behavior with a minor in Spanish.