Nelson Schiller, MD

Schiller
Professor
M_MED-CORE-CARD
Faculty Type
Affiliate Faculty

Research Interests: Dr. Schiller specializes in the use of echocardiography in the diagnosis and treatment of heart disease. His research interests center around the quantitation of left ventricular function by quantitative two-dimensional echocardiography and Doppler. Summary: Measuring the heart has been a preoccupation of civilizations since ancient Egypt. Measuring the heart using noninvasive techniques that are free of ionizing radiation has riveted the attention of modern medicine because knowledge of the size of the heart's anatomic parts provides powerful diagnostic and therapeutic information. Dr. Nelson B. Schiller a member of the Department of Medicine, Cardiology Division, CVRI and John J. Sampson-Lucie Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology, has spent his career investigating the application of echocardiography to the precise measurement and clinical application of the volume, weight and hemodynamics of the chambers and valves of the heart. His work is currently centered on the Heart and Soul Study (Mary Whooley, MD PI), where echocardiography measurements are being related to outcomes of heart disease.

Publications

Transesophageal echocardiography.

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography : official publication of the American Society of Echocardiography

Schiller NB, Maurer G, Ritter SB, Armstrong WF, Crawford M, Spotnitz H, Cahalan M, Quinones M, Meltzer R, Feinstein S

Address

505 Parnassus Avenue, Rm M320A
UCSF Box 0214
San Francisco, CA 94117
United States