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Ainars RUDZITIS

Ainars RUDZITIS

Certified cardiologist

Echocardiography specialist

Doctor of Medical Sciences

Specialising in:

  • Echocardiographic diagnostics
  • Invasive treatment of the coronary heart disease (percutaneous coronary interventions)
  • Diagnostics and invasive treatment of congenital and structural heart diseases
  • Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI)
  • Pulmonary arterial hypertension (diagnostics and treatment)
  • Rare diseases

Education:

  • 2018: Doctoral thesis “Long-term Results of Cardiac Atrial Septum Type II Defects and Persistent Oval Opening Trans-catheter Closure”, University of Latvia, Doctor of Medical Sciences;
  • 2009 – 2013: programme of doctoral studies at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy, University of Latvia;
  • 2006 – 2009: training in therapeutic percutaneous coronary angioplasty, Latvian Cardiology Centre;
  • 2004 –2006: Training in catheterisation of the heart and major blood vessels and angiography, Latvian Cardiology Centre;
  • 1996 – 2000: Residency in internal medicine and cardiology
  • 1990 – 1996: Faculty of Medicine, Latvian Medical Academy

Work experience:

  • 2001 – currently: cardiologist, Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital, Latvian Cardiology Centre,
  • 1996 –2001: internist and cardiologist, Riga Gailezers Clinical Hospital.

Practice in foreign clinics:

  • HerzzentrumLeipzig (Leipzig, Germany)
  • DeutschesHerzzentrum Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
  • Universitätsklinikum, KantonspitalBasel(UniversitätsspitalBasel, Switzerland)

Scientific activity:

Author and co-author of several scientific publications (on congenital heart diseases, pulmonary arterial hypertension, structural heart diseases, echocardiography), has prepared reports for several international scientific conferences held in Riga, Paris, London, Frankfurt, Madrid, Lund, and Tel Aviv.

Membership in organisations:

  • Member of the Board of the Latvian Association of Cardiologists
  • Member of the Board of the Echocardiography Working Group
  • Member of the Pulmonary Hypertension Working Group
  • Honorary Member of the Pulmonary Hypertension Society
  • Chairman of the Board of the Rare Diseases Research Fund
  • Member of the Board of the Latvian Association for Specialists of Rare Diseases
  • Member of the European Association of Cardiology
  • Member of the Working Groups of Valve Diseases and Congenital Heart Diseases
  • Member of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI)
  • Member of the American Association for Echocardiography
  • Authorandco-authorofmanyscientificpublications

Consultations available in Latvian, Russian, German and English.

ARS Diagnostic clinic
Address: Jāņa Asara Street 3, Riga
ARS Reception: +371 67 201 007

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Posted on

5. February, 2018.