UK Physician Certified in Heart Failure/Transplant

LEXINGTON, Ky. (Jan. 12, 2011) — Looking for a Kentucky physician who is board certified in advanced heart failure and transplant cardiology? There's only one: Dr. Navin Rajagopalan of UK HealthCare and the University of Kentucky Gill Heart Institute. 

The certification in heart failure/transplant cardiology was offered for the first time in 2010. Rajagopalan was one of approximiately 250 physicians in the U.S. who passed the required exam - which will not be offered again until 2012. At this time he is the only physician from Kentucky to have passed the requirements for the new certification.

"Dr. Rajapgopalan is an excellent physician, and by proactively pursuing board certification in heart failure and transplant cardiology, he demonstrates his commitment to delivering the best care possible to our heart failure and transplant patients," said Dr. David J. Moliterno, Director of the Gill Heart Institute and UK Chief of Cardiovascular Medicine.

To become board certfied in heart failure/transplant cardiology, a physician must first be board certified in cardiology and have completed a heart failure/transplant fellowship or have spent three of the last five years working with heart failure and transplant patients. After fulfilling these requirements, a physician may then sit for the exam, which is administered by the American Board of Internal Medicine. 

Dr. Rajagopalan is the Director of the UK HealthCare Advanced Heart Failure Clinic and the Medical Director of the UK HealthCare Cardiac Transplant Program.

For more information on UK HealthCare's Advanced Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplant Services, call 1-877-700-5479.