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Office
8010 Frost St
Suite 408
San Diego, CA 92123Phone+1 858-939-7471- Is this information wrong?
Summary
- Dr. Walter Dembitsky, MD is a board certified thoracic surgeon in San Diego, California. He is currently licensed to practice medicine in California.
Education & Training
Washington University/B-JH/SLCH ConsortiumFellowship, Thoracic Surgery, 1974 - 1976- Washington University/B-JH/SLCH ConsortiumResidency, Surgery, 1971 - 1974
Brigham and Women's HospitalResidency, Internal Medicine, 1970 - 1971- Washington University/B-JH/SLCH ConsortiumResidency, Surgery, 1969 - 1970
University of Missouri-Columbia School of MedicineInternship, Transitional Year, 1968 - 1969
University of Missouri-Columbia School of MedicineClass of 1968
Certifications & Licensure
CA State Medical License 1976 - 2023- American Board of Surgery Surgery
- American Board of Thoracic Surgery Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery
Awards, Honors, & Recognition
- Top MD Consumers Checkbook
- Super Doctor SuperDoctors.com
Clinical Trials
- ABLATE Post Approval Study - Synergy Ablation Lesions for Non-Paroxysmal Atrial Fibrillation Start of enrollment: 2012 Sep 01
- A Clinical Trial to Evaluate the HeartWare™ Ventricular Assist System (ENDURANCE SUPPLEMENTAL TRIAL) Start of enrollment: 2013 Oct 01
Publications & Presentations
PubMed
- Benchtop Models of Patient-Specific Intraventricular Flow During Heart Failure and LVAD Support.Vi Vu, Lorenzo Rossini, Juan C Del Alamo, Walter Dembitsky, Richard A Gray, Karen May-Newman> ;Journal of Biomechanical Engineering. 2023 Nov 1
- 6 citationsNon-physiologic closing of bi-leaflet mechanical heart prostheses requires a new tri-leaflet valve design.Thierry Carrel, Walter P. Dembitsky, Bas A.J.M. de Mol, Dominik Obrist, Gilles D. Dreyfus, Bart Meuris, Bernhard Vennemann, Didier Lapeyre, Hartzell V. Schaff> ;International Journal of Cardiology. 2020 Apr 1
- 50 citationsEffects of a fully magnetically levitated centrifugal-flow or axial-flow left ventricular assist device on von Willebrand factor: A prospective multicenter clinical tr...Aditya Bansal, Nir Uriel, Paolo C. Colombo, Keerthy Narisetty, James W. Long, Arvind Bhimaraj, Joseph C. Cleveland, Daniel J. Goldstein, John M. Stulak, Samer S. Najja...> ;The Journal of Heart and Lung Transplantation. 2019 Aug 1
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Press Mentions
Concurrent Isolation of 3 Distinct Cardiac Stem Cell Populations from a Single Human Heart BiopsyApril 26th, 2017
Special Report: ECMO in the ED: ‘We Can't Accept 8% Anymore’August 23rd, 2016
