Division of Cardiovascular Disease
College of Medicine

Sheldon S. Sbar, M.D.

Associate Professor of Medicine

Education
M.D. University of Florida, 1961
B.S. University of Florida, 1957
Contact Information
E-Mail: sheldon.sbar@med.va.gov
Phone: (813) 972-7581
FAX: (813) 972-7697

Biographical Sketch

Dr. Sbar graduated in the second medical school class from the University of Florida in 1961. Residency training primarily at Emory medical school with second year of cardiology fellowship at Florida. He came as the first director of the cardiac catheterization laboratory at Tampa general hospital in 1971 the same year the University of South Florida started its program. He maintained his appointment as clinical faculty since that time and proctored the first cardiac fellows going through the program under the direction of USF. He was an academic associate professor of medicine from 2000-2003; and since that period has continued at the Tampa VA Hospital, primarily in the catheterization laboratory where he performs invasive and interventional procedures. His primary interests are teaching . He has four grown children and six grandchildren all of whom reside in Tampa and keep his wife happily occupied. His hobbies are mountain biking and snow skiing the latter performed in Utah where he practiced for 5 years.

Areas of Expertise

  • Cardiac catheterization
  • Percutaneous coronary intervention
  • clinical cardiology

Current Research

Publications

Dipyridamole in the Treatment of Angina -- A Double Blind: Sheldon Sbar, M.D. and Robert C. Schlant, M.D. Journal of the American Medical Association, Volume 202:865, 1967.

Isolated Massive Chylopericardium. Stephen L. Glasser, M.D.; Melvin D. Cheitlin, M.D., Lase S. Serfas, M.D.; and Sheldon S. Sbar, M.D. American Heart Journal, Volume 75:663, 1968

Peripheral and Pulmanary Vasculitis; A form of Tukayasu's Arteritis. Sheldon S. Sbar, M.D. and Melvin D. Cheitlin, M.D.

Differentiation of Constrictive Pericarditis from Myocardiopathy Using Selective Coronary Angiography. Howard W. Ramsey, M.D. and Sheldon S.Sbar, M.D.

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