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USF Health Cardiovascular Sciences has extensive practice in cardiovascular medicine, fellowships, and research. Our team is built of compassionate physicians that deliver state-of-the-art clinical care to their patients with known or suspected cardiovascular disease. Whether you are visiting just to gain additional knowledge in symptoms of cardiovascular disease, looking for a second opinion, or seeking a world-class cardiologist, we are delighted to serve you in your care. Our wide-range of services that are offered through each one of our physicians and our facilities is catered with the patient in mind. At USF Health, we not only provide cutting edge treatment of cardiovascular diseases, but also train our future cardiovascular physicians and make available the latest treatments provided by research protocols. We pride ourselves on undertaking the highest quality healthcare, training highly competent and caring physicians, and generating the most innovative research.
Our physicians are nationally recognized for their expertise in:
- Electrophysiology
- Heart Failure
- Interventional Cardiology
- Cardiac Imaging
- Diagnostic Testing
Guilherme H. Oliveira, MD
Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program
USF Health Morsani College of Medicine is a top fifty tier status of colleges and schools of medicine in the country which coincides with our Program’s ascension to excellence in graduate medical education and training. In this setting, cardiovascular disease fellowship training is deeply and diversely empowered by our Program’s academic medical system affiliation with:
- Tampa General Hospital, a greater than 1,000 bed tertiary and quaternary referral, urban core safety net hospital which serves the west central coast of Florida
- The James A. Haley Veterans Administration Hospital, one of the largest VA systems in the country
- Moffitt Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute designated Comprehensive Cancer Center
The USF Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program admits six highly qualified physicians to its program each year.
Learn more about our fellowship program here.
Collaborative effort creates buzz: Could honeybee venom help treat atrial fibrillation?
A unique scientific collaboration that could offer an innovative potential treatment for atrial fibrillation has blossomed within USF Health, thanks to a chance encounter in a hallway, a plain green chalkboard and a most surprising star: the European honeybee. It represents a convergence of two distinctly different medical mindsets – pharmacology and immunology – and a blend of high-tech bio-engineering with an old-school writing surface. And then there’s the bee, which has pollinated the proces...
Collaborative effort creates buzz: Could honeybee venom help treat atrial fibrillation?
USF Health, TGH cardiologists earn NIH funding to study procedure’s impact on lowering stroke risk
It is a part of the heart that most people have never pondered, let alone heard of, in their lives. But the left atrial appendage – a physical trait that all humans share – is worth knowing about because it is involved in the vast majority of strokes. Now, a prestigious new grant obtained by a team from the USF Health Morsani College of Medicine and Tampa General Hospital could significantly enhance preventive treatments. Thanks to the innovative work of Dr. Hiram Bezerra, professor at the USF ...
USF Health, TGH cardiologists earn NIH funding to study procedure’s impact on lowering stroke risk
USF Health doctors named to national Top Doctors list
USF Health doctors are among the best and listed as such in the Top Doctor® list by Castle Connolly. The list, released earlier this year, includes over 400 local physicians among 55 medical specialties – 82 of them are with USF Health. USF Health Neurologist Dr. Theresa Zesiewicz. For more than 25 years, Castle Connolly has conducted the survey that provides the Top Doctors list. The annual survey involves nominations from peer physicians, who are asked “Where would you go if you needed care?” ...