AnthonyDefranceMDFSCCT
Cardiology • San Anselmo, CAInterventional Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Imaging, Non-Invasive Cardiology, Preventive Cardiology
CEO MedMentor Education Medical Director Cardiology, HealthHelp
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Office
150 W Oak Knoll Dr
San Anselmo, CA 94960- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- Dr. DeFrance has a unique background including clinical interventional cardiologist, chief medical officer, educator, outcomes researcher and entrepreneur. He has expertise in appropriate utilization of technology in medicine, healthcare economics, value based metrics, and educational design and delivery. He worked as chief medical officer for one of the largest specialty benefit managers in the US, and led large teams of healthcare professionals in writing evidence based appropriate care guidelines and rule sets which improve the quality and safety of medicine for over 20 million people in the US while also creating sustained savings in healthcare. He has also designed clinical decision support systems that are currently in use helping to improve patient care.
In 2018 Dr. DeFrance founded MedMentor Education, a company that provides state of the art CME content using the latest in eLearning science and online delivery platforms. Dr. DeFrance is also the founder and President of Digimedica, a consulting and educational design and delivery company for healthcare professionals, hospitals, and universities. He is passionate about creating systems to optimize knowledge transfer and has won numerous awards for teaching excellence during his career. He is an expert in cardiovascular CT imaging and has taught more than 3,000 physicians how to perform and interpret cardiac CT nationally and internationally and has lectured extensively on this subject.
Dr. DeFrance has a stellar reputation in the medical field and continues work to improve the quality and safety of patient care in the US.
Education & Training
Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterFellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 1993 - 1996
University of California (San Francisco)Internship, Internal Medicine, 1990 - 1991
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern CaliforniaClass of 1990
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 1991 - 2025
NV State Medical License 2009 - 2013- American Board of Lifestyle MedicineABLM Board Certification
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Temporary arterial stenting: comparison to permanent stenting and conventional balloon injury in a rabbit carotid artery model.Rechavia E, Fishbien MC, DeFrance T, Nakamura M, Parikh A, Litvack F, Eigler N> ;Catheterization and cardiovascular diagnosis.
- Classic images: coronary computed tomographic angiography.Shriki JE, Talkin B, DeFrance T, Wilcox A> ;Current problems in cardiology.
- Diagnosis of ischemia-causing coronary stenoses by noninvasive fractional flow reserve computed from coronary computed tomographic angiograms. Results from the prospec...Koo BK, Erglis A, Doh JH, Daniels DV, Jegere S, Kim HS, Dunning A, DeFrance T, Lansky A, Leipsic J, Min JK> ;Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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