Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine

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Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
Philadelphia Heart Institute - 4th Floor
39th & Market Streets
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Appointments
Contact: Vanessa Plummer (215) 662-9787

Clinical Specialty:

• Cardiovascular Medicine
• Heart Failure

Practice Location:

• Penn Presbyterian Medical Center, PHI

Education:

• MD: Temple University Medical School
• Residency: Temple Hospital
• Fellowship: Temple Hospital

Research Interest:

• Heart Failure
• Cardiac Transplantation
• Critical Care Cardiology
• Consultative Cardiology
• Cardiac disease in athletics

Selected Publications:

1. Pina IL, Zimmer RR, "Heart Disease in the Presence of Neurology Disease" in Braunwald, Eugene Atlas of Heart Diseases, VI:6.1 - 6:19, Mosby Year Book, Inc., St. Louis, MO, 1995.
2. Pina IL, Zimmer RR, Gil V. "End-points for Evaluation of Therapies" in Rose, Eric and Warner Stevenson, Lynne Management of End Stage Heart Disease, pp 25-35, Lippincott-Raven, Philadelphia, PA 1998.
3. Kosseim L, Pifer E, Zimmer RR. Effective management of complex heart failure. Postgraduate Medicine 1999;105:17-24.