Overview
Alfred Asante-Korang, M.D., F.A.C.C., pediatric cardiologist with the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Heart Institute, has been working with heart transplant patients for more than 20 years. Dr. Asante-Korang was named Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital best consulting physician in the 2023 Johns Hopkins Medicine Clinical Awards. Dr. Asante-Korang graduated from the University of Ghana Medical School, where he also completed an internship in pediatrics. He completed pediatric residencies at the University of Liverpool and the University of Chicago, as well as fellowships in pediatric cardiology at the IWK Children’s Hospital in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada and the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
Dr. Asante is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Heart Failure. His top areas of expertise are Infantile Neutropenia, Heart Failure, Cardiomyopathy Due to Anthracyclines, Cardiomyopathy, and Heart Transplant.
His clinical research consists of co-authoring 37 peer reviewed articles and participating in 1 clinical trial. MediFind looks at clinical research from the past 15 years. In particular, he has co-authored 11 articles in the study of Heart Failure.
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Locations
601 5th Street South, Suite 260, Suite 260, Saint Petersburg, FL 33701
2905-2907 Allegra Way, Lutz, FL 33559
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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Johns Hopkins All Children's Outpatient Care, St. Petersburg
Dr. Decker is a pediatric cardiologist specializing in electrophysiology, cardiac arrhythmias, cardiomyopathies and heart failure. He offers innovative and minimally invasive techniques to benefit patients at the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Heart Institute. He was named the 2023 William A. Baumgartner Physician of the Year for Johns Hopkins All Children's in the Johns Hopkins Medicine Clinical Awards. Before joining All Children’s, Dr. Decker was an assistant professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, where he completed a fellowship in pediatric cardiology, an advanced fellowship in heart failure/transplantation, and an advanced fellowship in pediatric electrophysiology at Baylor College of Medicine. A graduate of Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in Camden, New Jersey, Dr. Decker did his pediatric residency training at Children’s National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Dr. Decker is rated as an Experienced provider by MediFind in the treatment of Heart Failure. His top areas of expertise are Arrhythmias, Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS), Cardiomyopathy, Heart Failure, and Heart Transplant.
Areas of Expertise
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- Distinguished
- Heart TransplantDr. Asante isDistinguished. Learn about Heart Transplant.
- Experienced
- CardiomyopathyDr. Asante isExperienced. Learn about Cardiomyopathy.
- Cardiomyopathy Due to AnthracyclinesDr. Asante isExperienced. Learn about Cardiomyopathy Due to Anthracyclines.
- Doxorubicin-Induced CardiomyopathyDr. Asante isExperienced. Learn about Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiomyopathy.
- Heart FailureDr. Asante isExperienced. Learn about Heart Failure.
- Infantile NeutropeniaDr. Asante isExperienced. Learn about Infantile Neutropenia.
- Pulmonary AtresiaDr. Asante isExperienced. Learn about Pulmonary Atresia.