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Frederick Kushner, MD, Cardiology, Marrero, LA, West Jefferson Medical Center

FrederickGKushnerMDFACP,FACC,FSCAI,FAHA

Cardiology • Marrero, LA

Interventional Cardiology, Cardiothoracic Imaging, Cardiac Critical Care

medical director Heart Clinic of Louisiana, adjunct professor of medicine, Tulane Univ., LSU Health Science Center, adjunct professor of medicine NYU school of medicine

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Summary

  • I am a board certified cardiologist and interventional cardiologist specializing in acute coronary syndromes and interested in clinical practice guideline development and medical science policy.

Education & Training

  • Massachusetts General Hospital
    Massachusetts General HospitalFellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 1978 - 1979
  • University of Pennsylvania Health System
    University of Pennsylvania Health SystemFellowship, Cardiovascular Disease, 1976 - 1978
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical CenterResidency, Internal Medicine, 1974 - 1976
  • Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons
    Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and SurgeonsClass of 1974
  • Columbia University, Columbia College
    Columbia University, Columbia CollegeBA, 1966 - 1970

Certifications & Licensure

  • CA State Medical License
    CA State Medical License 1979 - Present
  • FL State Medical License
    FL State Medical License 2022 - 2026
  • NY State Medical License
    NY State Medical License 1977 - 2025
  • CO State Medical License
    CO State Medical License 2004 - 2025
  • LA State Medical License
    LA State Medical License 1979 - 2024
  • PA State Medical License
    PA State Medical License 1976 - 1978
  • American Board of Internal Medicine Internal Medicine
  • American Board of Internal Medicine Cardiovascular Disease

Awards, Honors, & Recognition

  • Who’s Who of the South & Southwest 2013
  • Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering 2011
  • Marquis Who’s Who in The World 2005
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Publications & Presentations

PubMed

Journal Articles

  • 2015 ACC/AHA/SCAI Focused Update on Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for Patients With ST-Elevation MI  
    Levine,O'Gara et al., JACC, 3/15/2016
  • Prosthetic Valve Strands  
    Kerut, E.K.; Kushner F.G., Echocardiography Journal; Echo Rounds, 1/1/2014
  • 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of St-Elevation Myocardial Infarction  
    O'Gara, Kushner et al., Circulation, JACC, 1/20/2013
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Books/Book Chapters

  • Cardiovascular Therapeutics, A Comparison to Braunwald’s Heart Disease 
    Chapter: ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction 
    Antman, E.Editors: Kushner, F., Bates E.Elsevier SaundersEdition 3rd,2006

Abstracts/Posters

  • Pulmonary Thallium-201 after stress in patients with coronary artery disease
    Kushner, F.G., Okada, R.D., Kirshenbaum, H.D., Boucher, C.A., Strauss, H.W., Pohost, G.M., Clinical Research, 1/1/1979
  • Exercise induced changes in pulmonary blood volume determined by blood pool imaging: Relationship to coronary artery disease
    Okada, R.D., Pohost, G. M., Kirshenbaum, H.D., Kushner, F.G., Boucher, C.A., Strauss, H.W., Clinical Research, 1/1/1979
  • Ergonovine induced coronary hemodynamic response in patients with a typical chest pain or variant angina
    Goldberg, S., Mudge, G., Lam, W., Kushner, F., Green, L.,Hirshfield, J., Kastor, J., Clinical Research, 1/1/1979
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Lectures

  • Audience ARS Question 
    2019 ACC Scientific Session & Expo, New Orleans - 3/18/2019
  • CCU Conundrums: What Would YOU Do? 
    2019 ACC Scientific Session & Expo, New Orleans - 3/18/2019
  • 2015 PCI and STEMI Focused Update 
    Tulane Medical School - 1/1/2016
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Other

  • Mission Possible: How FDA Can Move At the Speed of Science: Report of the FDA Science Looking Forward Subcommittee of the FDA Science Board 
    M. Philbert, M Freire, F Kushner et al.
    9/2015
  • Mission Possible: How FDA Can Move at the Speed of Science: Report of the Science Looking Forward Subcommittee 
    FDA Science Board
    1/1/2015
  • Host, TV program "Heart to Heart" 
    WYES TV
    1/1/1996
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Authored Content

  • quoted in New York Times article "Most Osteoporosis Drugs Don't Build Bone, This One Does" 4/9/2019April 2019

Press Mentions

  • Most Osteoporosis Drugs Don’t Build Bone. This One Does
    Most Osteoporosis Drugs Don’t Build Bone. This One DoesApril 9th, 2019
  • 2012 ACCF/AHA/HRS Focused Update Incorporated into the ACCF/AHA/HRS 2008 Guidelines for Device-Based Therapy of Cardiac Rhythm Abnormalities A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Gui...
    2012 ACCF/AHA/HRS Focused Update Incorporated into the ACCF/AHA/HRS 2008 Guidelines for Device-Based Therapy of Cardiac Rhythm Abnormalities A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Gui...March 7th, 2019
  • 2011 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/ American Heart Association Task Force on Practice Guidelines
    2011 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy A Report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation/ American Heart Association Task Force on Practice GuidelinesMarch 2nd, 2019
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Committees

  • member, ACC/AHA 2007 Guidelines for the Management of Patients With Unstable Angina/Non–ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction—Executive Summary
  • member, 2013 ACCF/AHA Guideline for the Management of ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction

Professional Memberships

Hospital Affiliations

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