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Nationally respected as a forerunner in medical and surgical techniques, the University of Maryland Heart Center is a national referral center for the most difficult cardiac cases. The vast expertise of our physicians - all of whom are also University of Maryland School of Medicine faculty members - distinguish us as a first-rate, comprehensive heart center.

Heart Center News

• Cardiologist and Herbert W. Nickens 2011 award winner, Elijah Saunders, named 2012 Influential Marylander by The Daily Record.
• Advanced heart failure expert, Dr. Erika Feller, tells Boston Globe of importance of CPR in acute heart attacks during races.
• Marathon runner thanks UMMC Staff who saved his life. See complete news coverage.
• UMMC Cardiologist wins prestigious national award for lifetime achievement in health care equality.
• UMMC named one of 65 hospitals with Great Cardiology Programs.
• Dr. Erika Feller and UMMC patient featured in The Wall Street Journal
• Tour the new Hybrid OR that combines the best of cardiology and the best of cardiac surgery.
• See our new Cardiac OR Surgery Tour videos!
• UMMC designated as a Cardiac Interventional Care Center.
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Now Seeing Patients at Westminster.

Patient Success Story: Robert Pohl

Interview with heart attack survivor Robert Pohl and his wife Karen Pohl.

• Maryland Arrhythmia and Cardiology Imaging Group
• UMMC is one of the few hospitals in U.S. performing PTE, an advanced surgical treatment for chronic pulmonary hypertension.

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