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Roberto Lang

Section of Cardiology

Professor of Medicine

rlang@bsd.uchicago.edu

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A. J. Carlson Professor of Medicine; Director, Cardiac Noninvasive Imaging Laboratories

Academic Interests

Dr. Lang is interested in the clinical utility of noninvasive techniques in assessing left ventricular contractile state, ventriculo vascular coupling and myocardial perfusion and energetics in humans. He is also investigating the interaction of the heart and systemic circulation as determinants of left ventricular loading conditions and systemic hypertension as well as left ventricular mechanics in hypertension and congestive heart failure. Utilizing three dimensional echocardiography, automated border detection and contrast echocardiography, he is also evaluating ventriculo-vascular function.

Clinical Interests

Valvular heart disease, heart failure, hypertension, coronary artery disease, echocardiography.

Publications

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Training

MD, 1977, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires,
Residency, 1981, Tel-Aviv University, Internal Medicine
Residency, 1983, University of Wisconsin, Internal Medicine
Fellowship, 1984, The University of Chicago, Cardiology
Fellowship, 1985, The University of Chicago, Cardiac Non-Invasive Physiology