David J. Whellan M.D.
Cardiologist | Cardiovascular Disease
925 Chestnut St Philadelphia PA, 19107About
Dr. David Whellan is a cardiologist practicing in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Whellan specializes in diagnosing, monitoring, and treating diseases or conditions of the heart and blood vessels and the cardiovascular system. These conditions include heart attacks, heart murmurs, coronary heart disease, and hypertension. Dr. Whellan also practices preventative medicine, helping patients maintain a heart-healthy life.
Education and Training
Washington University In St Louis School of Medicine,St Louis, Mo, United States 1994
Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine 1994
Board Certification
Internal MedicineAmerican Board of Internal MedicineABIM
Provider Details
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Disease management of congestive heart failure.
- Reduction in heart failure events by the addition of a clinical pharmacist to the heart failure management team: results of the Pharmacist in Heart Failure Assessment Recommendation and Monitoring (PHARM) Study.
- Medicaid, managed care, and the care of patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction.
- The state of exercise training: a need for action.
- Radionuclide viability testing: should it affect treatment strategy in patients with cardiomyopathy and significant coronary artery disease?
- Depression and cardiovascular disease: mechanisms of interaction.
- Training trials in heart failure: time to exercise restraint?
- Effect of angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors, beta blockers, statins, and aspirin on C-reactive protein levels in outpatients with heart failure.
- Clinical characteristics and referral pattern of patients with left ventricular dysfunction and significant coronary artery disease undergoing radionuclide imaging.
- Differences in care-seeking behavior for acute chest pain in the United States and Japan.
- Why is depression bad for the failing heart? A review of the mechanistic
- Outcomes in heart failure patients after major noncardiac surgery.
- Metaanalysis and review of heart failure disease management randomized controlled clinical trials.
- Heart failure disease management: implementation and outcomes.
- Diastolic heart failure and continuous hemodynamic monitoring.
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Treatments
- Heart Disease
- Heart Failure
- Cardiomyopathy
- Coronary Artery Disease (cad)
- Pain
- Vascular Disease
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