
Overview
Norman Wang, MD, is a cardiologist and is certified in clinical cardiac electrophysiology, cardiovascular disease, and internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He is a cardiac electrophysiologist at the UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute and an associate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Northwestern University and completed his residency and fellowships at McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. Dr. Wang joined the UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute in 2008. His clinical interests include cardiovascular implantable electronic devices and catheter ablation for arrhythmias. He has over 70 publications in peer reviewed journals.
Dr. Wang is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Heart Attack. His top areas of expertise are Arrhythmias, Atrial Fibrillation, Sick Sinus Syndrome, Cardiac Ablation, and Pacemaker Implantation.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 93 peer reviewed articles. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 3 articles in the study of Heart Attack.
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Locations
1350 Locust Street, Suite 100, Pittsburgh, PA 15219
9100 Babcock Boulevard, Pittsburgh, PA 15237
1211 Wilmington Avenue, New Castle, PA 16105
Clinical Research
Clinical research consists of overseeing clinical studies of patients undergoing new treatments and therapies, and publishing articles in peer reviewed medical journals. Providers who actively participate in clinical research are generally at the forefront of the fields and aware of the most up-to-date advances in treatments for their patients.
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UPMC Presbyterian
Gavin W. Hickey, MD, is an advanced heart failure and transplant, pulmonary hypertension cardiologist and is board-certified in cardiovascular disease, advanced heart failure and transplant, and echocardiography by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Society of Echocardiography. Dr. Hickey is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Heart Attack. His top areas of expertise are Cardiogenic Shock, Heart Failure, Heart Attack, Pulmonary Hypertension, and Heart Transplant.
UPMC Heart And Vascular Institute
Catalin Toma, MD, is an interventional cardiologist and is certified in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology by the American Board of Internal Medicine. He currently serves as director of interventional cardiology for the Heart and Vascular Institute and director of the Interventional Fellowship at UPMC. He is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He received his medical degree from Grigore T. Popa University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Iasi, Romania. Following a post-doctoral fellowship at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, he completed an internal medicine residency at St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center in New York City and a fellowship in cardiovascular disease and interventional cardiology at UPMC. Dr. Toma joined the UPMC Heart and Vascular Institute in 2007. He currently leads the Chronic Total Occlusion Program as well as the Pulmonary Vascular Interventional Program at UPMC Presbyterian Hospital. He is an integral part of the Structural Heart Program with interests in the aortic and tricuspid space. Additional interests include intracoronary imaging and mechanical circulatory support. Dr. Toma has had an extensive amount of publications and presentations over his career, has several invention patents, and serves as a clinical study leader at local and national levels. View Dr. Toma's full list of publications from PubMed. Dr. Toma is rated as a Distinguished provider by MediFind in the treatment of Heart Attack. His top areas of expertise are Pulmonary Embolism, Acute Coronary Syndrome, Heart Attack, Percutaneous Coronary Intervention (PCI), and Aortic Valve Replacement.
Areas of Expertise
MediFind evaluates expertise by pulling from factors such as number of articles a doctor has published in medical journals, participation in clinical trials, speaking at industry conferences, prescribing and referral patterns, and strength of connections with other experts in their field.
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- Elite
- ArrhythmiasDr. Wang isElite. Learn about Arrhythmias.
- Distinguished
- Atrial FibrillationDr. Wang isDistinguished. Learn about Atrial Fibrillation.
- Cardiac AblationDr. Wang isDistinguished. Learn about Cardiac Ablation.
- Familial Progressive Cardiac Conduction Defect
- Heart BlockDr. Wang isDistinguished. Learn about Heart Block.
- Sick Sinus SyndromeDr. Wang isDistinguished. Learn about Sick Sinus Syndrome.
- Ventricular FibrillationDr. Wang isDistinguished. Learn about Ventricular Fibrillation.
- Advanced
- Atrial TachycardiaDr. Wang isAdvanced. Learn about Atrial Tachycardia.
- Atrioventricular Nodal Reentrant Tachycardia (AVNRT)
- Bidirectional TachycardiaDr. Wang isAdvanced. Learn about Bidirectional Tachycardia.
- Cardiac ArrestDr. Wang isAdvanced. Learn about Cardiac Arrest.
- CardiomyopathyDr. Wang isAdvanced. Learn about Cardiomyopathy.
- Catecholaminergic Polymorphic Ventricular Tachycardia
- Experienced
- ApoplexyDr. Wang isExperienced. Learn about Apoplexy.
- Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy
- Arterial EmbolismDr. Wang isExperienced. Learn about Arterial Embolism.
- Atrial Septal Defect (ASD)Dr. Wang isExperienced. Learn about Atrial Septal Defect (ASD).
- Brugada SyndromeDr. Wang isExperienced. Learn about Brugada Syndrome.
- Congenital Coronary Artery Malformation


