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Faculty & Staff
 Tasneem Naqvi, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director, Echocardiography Services
Medical Director, Non Invasive Diagnostic Services, USC Cardiac and Vascular Institute
Keck School of Medicine
University of Southern California
Contact Information
Academic Office:
Healthcare Consultation Center I
1510 San Pablo Street
Suite 322
Los Angeles CA 90033
Phone: (323) 442-6131
Fax: (323) 442-6133
For patients:
Healthcare Consultation Center II
1520 San Pablo Street
Suite 1000
Los Angeles, CA 90033
Appointment line: (323) 442-7669
Department
Specialties
- Cardiology
- Internal Medicine
Background
A native of Pakistan, Dr. Naqvi has been affiliated with UCLA as Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine before joining the Keck School of Medicine of USC in 2007. Dr. Naqvi began her career at Cedars-Sinai in 1996 as a staff cardiologist, eventually becoming the center's Associate Director of Echocardiography and director of cardiovascular screening and interventional ultrasound. She currently heads the echocardiography services at the Keck School of Medicine, at the 3 facilities at LAC-USC hospital, USC University Hospital and at the outpatient imaging facility at the Cardiovascular Diagnostic and Thoracic Institute. She superviss junior faculty, sonographers, nurses and nurse practioners and is responsible, along with her colleagues, for training clinical cardiology fellows as well as research echocardiography fellows. Several peer reviewed manuscripts, review articles and viewpoints are published from the echocardiography laboratories at USC every year and the center participates in echocardiography research presentations and didactic lectures in various national meetings throughout the year.
In addition to her extensive research funding and published articles, Dr. Naqvi is currently or previously has been a member of 10 professional societies, including the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology and the Los Angeles Society of Echocardiology.which she served as a past president. She is a reviewer for over 10 journals, is an editorial consultant for journals such as Journal of American College of Cardiology and is a member of National Institute of Health Study Section and of the American Heart Association Westeran States Affliate. Among her vast array of honors and awards, include young investigator award from the American Heart Association and excellence in academic achievement award from Association of Physicians of Pakstani Descent of North America. She has several ongoing funded research projects evaluating echocardiography during biventricular pacemaker optimization, pregnancy and in evaluation of intima media thickness for cardiovascular risk predication.
Education
- Dow Medical College, Karachi University, Karachi, Pakistan, MBBS 1984
Internships
- House Officer Internal Medicine / Surgery / Cardiology, Civil Hospital
- Aga Khan University Hospital and Civil Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, 1984-1986
Residencies
- Registrar / Instructor in Internal Medicine, Civil Hospital, Karachi, Pakistan, 1984 -1986
- Senior House Officer in Internal Medicine, Lister Hospital Stevenage, UK, 1987 - 1988
- Registrar in Internal Medicine Worcester Royal Infirmary Worcester, UK, 1989 - 1990
- Registrar in Internal Medicine, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Birmingham, UK, 1990 - 1991
- Resident and Assistant Clinical Instructor in Medicine, Stony Brook University Hospital, New York, 1991 - 1993
Fellowships
- Fellow in Clinical Cardiology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, 1993 - 1996
Board Certification
- American Board of Cardiovascular Medicine
- American Board of Internal Medicine
- American Society Echocardiography
Awards
- Co-author Recipient (Sanjay Kaul) Young Investigator, 1995 Award, AHA sponsored Scientific Conference on the Functional and Structural Aspects of the Vascular Wall, Snowbird Utah, 1995
- Recipient Laverna Titus Young Investigators Award, Clinical Science, AHA, May 1995 Greater Los Angeles Affiliate, CA, 1995
- Recipient ACC / Merck Fellowship Award 1996 - 1997, 1996
- Recipient LASE (LA, Echo Society) Fellowship Award, 1997
- Biography in Marquis's Who's Who in America, Who's Who in America in Health Care, 2002 - 2006, Who in Women in America, Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, The Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century, UK, 2004
- 20th Annual International Conference on Recent Advances in Echocardiography: Case Studies (Read with the experts) March 6, 2004, New Orleans, Louisiana, Won first prize in audience response case presentation, 2004
- Fellowship of Royal College of Physicians, (FRCP), UK, 2005
- Scientist of the Week, Association for Eradication of Heart Attacks, 2005
- Yearly Tubau Fellowship Award, 2007
- T-E Audiovisual Grant, University of Southern California, 2007
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| FACULTY & STAFF |
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David Cesario, MD, PhD |
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Philip M. Chang, MD |
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Leonardo Clavijo, MD, PhD |
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Uri Elkayam, MD |
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Michael Fong, MD |
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Luanda Grazette, MD, FACC |
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L. Julian Haywood, MD |
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Howard Hodis, MD |
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Henry Huang, MD |
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Robert Kloner, MD, PhD |
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Tracy D. Lawrence MD, FACC |
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Peter Mahrer, MD |
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Ray Matthews, MD |
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Anilkumar Mehra, MD |
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Vivian Mo, MD |
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Tasneem Naqvi, MD |
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Enrique Ostrzega, MD |
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Mohammad Pashmforoush, MD |
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Salima Qamruddin, MD |
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Shahbudin Rahimtoola, MD |
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Leslie A. Saxon, MD |
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David Shavelle, MD |
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Jerold Shinbane, MD |
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Masato Takahashi, MD |
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Thomas-Duythuc To, MD |
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Helga Van Herle, MD |
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Andrew J. Yoon, MD |
| Nurse Coordinators |
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Grace Kang, NP |
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Mary Schoenbaum, NP |
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Susie Song, RN |
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